Non-compact Riemann surfaces are equilaterally triangulable

Abstract: We show that every open Riemann surface can be obtained by glueing together a countable collection of equilateral triangles, in such a way that every vertex belongs to finitely many triangles. Equivalently, it is a Belyi surface: There exists a holomorphic branched covering to the Riemann sphere that is branched only over three values. It follows that every Riemann surface is a branched cover of the sphere, branched only over finitely many points.