Is a connected Reinhardt Domain which containg $0$ necessarely a polydisc?

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I'm studying several complex variables basics.

Roughly speaking: call $D\subseteq\Bbb C^n$ the set of points in which a given power series $$ \sum_{\alpha\in\Bbb N^n}a_{\alpha}(z-z_0)^{\alpha} $$ converges normally.

Call $B$ the set of $z$'s such that $|a_{\alpha}(z-z_0)^{\alpha}|<c$ for all $\alpha\in\Bbb N^n$.

We know that $D=\operatorname{int}B$.

This allow us to understand that $D$ must be a Reinhardt and complete domain (complete means that given $z\in D$ then, $w\in\Bbb C^n$ s.t. $|w_j|\le|z_j|\;\forall j=1,\dots,n\;\Longrightarrow w\in D$); furthermore these domains are characterized to be union of polydiscs centered in $0$ (easy to see).

We know moreover that holomorphic functions are exactly convergent power series on union of polydiscs.

In particular, over a Reinhardt complete domain, an holomorphic function is always represented as a sum of a power series centered in $0$.

Now my book states and proves a theorem which says that the last conclusion is nevertheless reached even if we don't ask the completeness.

Precisely the theorem says:

Let $\Omega\subseteq\Bbb C^n$ a Reinhardt domain, connected, containing $0_{\Bbb C^n}$ and $f\in\mathcal{H}(\Omega)$. Then $$ f(z)=\sum_{\alpha}\frac{f^{(\alpha)}(0)}{\alpha!}z^{\alpha} $$ followed by a long proof.

My question is: it should follow directly from definition of Reinhardt domain that, an $\Omega$ like the one in the hypothesis of the theorem should be a polydisc. Hence, why can't we conclude immediately with this observation? (the book presents a nontrivial proof, technical and long).

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Everything is in the comments already, but I will spell it out in an answer here.

$$f(z,w) = \frac{1}{1-zw} = \sum_{0}^\infty z^kw^k$$ has domain of convergence $\{(z,w):|z||w|<1\}$, which is certainly not a polydisk, although it is connected and contains $0$.

It is true that if a connected Rienhardt domain $\Omega$ contains $0$, and $f$ is holomorphic on $\Omega$, then the power series of $f$ converges to $f$ normally on $\Omega$.

From further discussion, it seems OP was confused about why the proof of this theorem is hard. He thought "such a domain must be the union of polydisks centered at 0, and for polydisks it is easy".

The key word missing in the theorem above, which makes it a hard theorem, is the word "complete" before Reinhardt. For example, the theorem would even apply to the domain

$$\Omega = \{ (z,w) : |z|<1, |w|<1\} \cup \{(z,w): \frac{1}{2}<|z|<2, |w|<2\}$$

which is not a union of polydisks centered at $0$. The fact that all holomorphic functions on $\Omega$ have their power series converge normally to them on all of $\Omega$ is really surprising. You would think it would only converge on the largest polydisk contained in it, namely the polydisk of radius $1$. The theorem guarentees that it converges on the whole thing.

In fact, every holomorphic function on a Reinhardt domain must converge on a (potentially) larger one: namely the smallest complete log convex Reinhardt domain containing the given one. This is an instance of the "Hartog's extension phenomenon".