🧮 Brain Teaser

Thursday, November 5, 2026

Today's topic: Complex Analysis / Differential Geometry

Injective Entire Functions Are Linear

Let f:C→Cf:\mathbb{C}\to\mathbb{C} be an entire function that is injective.

Prove that ff must be affine:

f(z)=az+bfor some a,b∈C, a≠0.f(z) = az + b \qquad \text{for some } a,b\in\mathbb{C},\ a\neq 0.

Corollary to keep in mind: the biholomorphic automorphisms of C\mathbb{C} are exactly the maps z↦az+bz\mapsto az+b.

Hint (if you want one): study the behavior of ff near ∞\infty, that is, the singularity of g(w)=f(1/w)g(w)=f(1/w) at w=0w=0. Which of the three singularity types are compatible with injectivity?

singularity at infinityCasorati-Weierstrassopen mapping theoremautomorphisms of Centire functions

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