Uniqueness of the local index of an isolated zero
ProvedFiniteEnergyPlane.hasZeroIndex_uniquepseudoholomorphic-curvestopologywinding-numbers
Let and . If is an isolated zero of of local index and also of local index , then .
This makes the local index of an isolated zero a well-defined integer, so that index sums such as (Hryniewicz (14)) do not depend on the chosen witnesses.
Formalization Note "Isolated zero of local index " is HasZeroIndex f z₀ k: , has no other zero in some closedBall z₀ r with , and every counterclockwise circle with has winding number under (HasLoopWind).
Preamble
import Definitions.Def_FiniteEnergyPlane_Winding
Formal statement
namespace FiniteEnergyPlane
/-- The local index of an isolated zero of a function `ℂ → ℂ` is unique. -/
theorem hasZeroIndex_unique {f : ℂ → ℂ} {z₀ : ℂ} {k m : ℤ} (hk : HasZeroIndex f z₀ k)
(hm : HasZeroIndex f z₀ m) : k = m := by
sorry
end FiniteEnergyPlane
Source
Standard (degree theory of loops in ); used in U. Hryniewicz, Trans. AMS 364 (2012), Remark 3.20