Hi! I am Max.
Question:
We know that
if a series converges absolutely at magnitude ,
then it converges at every such that .
Is the converse true?
My answer: abs_converse.pdf
This proves the direction.
Similar argument but with Fourier inversion formula proves the direction.
Denote and recall SS ch 1 ex 7.
Definition: the trivial automorphism of is .
Definition: a fixed point of a function is an such that .
Claim: Let . If is nontrivial,
then has at most one fixed point in .
Proof:
We prove the contrapositive; assume has two distinct fixed points .
The function fixes and
so Schwarz lemma gives for some ,
and we must have since fixes ,
hence
hence .
QED.
Examples:
If with , then is the unique fixed point of because is a nontrivial rotation.
If , with , then has a unique fixed point in because the equation has a unique solution in .
If , with , then has no fixed points in ; its fixed points are , since those are the solutions of .
Hyperbolic geometry: every nontrivial isometry of the hyperbolic plane has at most one fixed point; this fails for the euclidean plane because of reflections.
Fixed point in : the Brouwer fixed point theorem implies that every has a fixed point in (once has been extended holomorphically to an open superset of ). It would be interesting to see a complex-analytic proof, especially since I don't know how to prove the Brouwer fixed point theorem.
Unresolved question: which have no fixed point in ?
Maybe they are precisely those which have two fixed points in .
Thoughts: The function is nonconstant whenever . It's meromorphic on . Let ; then the quadratic formula shows that has exactly two fixed points with multiplicity. They may be equal: let ; then has a double fixed point iff , and the double fixed point is . (Note that ; this has a straightedge-and-compass proof.) Let ; those solving the equation form a circle centered at with radius .
From this we can see that for any there exists a unique rotation such that has a double fixed point on the unit circle (and no other fixed points).
Rouché's theorem might give a little more info.
Solution: Just realized that, whenever and , the fixed points of are
where .
This completely resolves the unresolved question;
I might use this to write up a cleaner version of this post at some point.