Appendix B: Table of Figures
B Table of Figures
Figure 3.1: Closed triangulated polygonal chain49
Figure 3.2: Quadrisection of 49
Figure 3.3: A simplified region containing two vertical lines and two continuous, rectifiable curves.52
Figure 3.4: Geometry of the finite subcover of for some .78
Figure 3.5: , , and when , with distances marked. The use of and denote a value more or less (respectively) than the preceding value.103
Figure 4.1: The annulus , with , , and .112
Figure 4.2: The orientation of a neighborhood that does not enclose after projection.165
Figure 4.3: A semicircular contour with orientation marked.166
Figure 4.4: An indented semicircular contour with orientation marked.167
Figure 4.5: A wedge contour with orientation marked.169
Figure 4.6: An indented wedge contour with orientation marked.171
Figure 4.7: A rectangular contour with orientation marked.173
Figure 5.1: The biholomorphism between and via .201
Figure 5.2: The two regions and sharing a boundary curve , the disk for , and the curve1 . Solid large arrows and arrowheads denote orientation of the and regions.204
Figure 6.1: The elements of , relative to and its neighborhood, .208
Figure 6.2: The striped region bounds , while the thin lines bound the dotted region .225
Figure 6.3: The striped region represents while the unshaded regions represent the set which can be in, each of which are denoted by small stars. The dotted disks represent the finite subcover of : notice that every striped region is also dotted.226
Figure 6.4: The construction of . The entire polyline from to is 227
Figure 6.5: A conceptual construction of , which unions to .227
Figure 7.1: The construction of the arc subtending a positive angle on which . The striped region is .244
Figure 7.2: By choosing sufficiently small , we obtain a grid such that the boundary curves are disjoint.269
Figure 8.1: has a greater heuristic distance to for a more curved surface.285
Figure 9.1: Illustration of the deformation of a homeomorphism between a rectangle with opposite sides identified and a torus.319
Figure 9.2: The parallelogram with 8 periods on its boundary with lattice .323
Figure 9.3: The region with a comb-shaped boundary.334
Figure 9.4: Configuration of , and possible .336
Figure 9.5: Possible positioning of relative to .336
Figure 9.6: Possible configuration of .336
Figure 9.7: Concept configuration of 336
Figure 9.8: Two possibilities for the endpoints of 339
Figure 9.9: Two line segments and mapping to a Jordan curve bounding 343
Figure 9.10: The construction of , , , and , and similarly, that of , , , and .345
Figure 10.1: A geometric visualization of the Parallelogram Law.363
Figure 10.2: A set which is convex (left) and one which is not (right).364
Figure 12.1: A Hankel contour.422
Figure 12.2: A keyhole contour.422