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Past exam of the analytic number theory and elliptic curves course of the University of Oxford 2007 A 3 ii Solution by
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Complete multiplicativity and give, for ,The product is nonzero there; its absolutely convergent logarithm has terms . ThusEach numerator is one of , so it is nonnegative. Exponentiation gives the required lower bound one.
If with , its assumed holomorphy makes , or smaller for a higher-order zero. The zeta factor at real grows at most as , while the zeta factor near stays bounded. The product tends to zero, a contradiction. Hence
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The double-angle formula givesFor , the logarithm of the absolutely convergent Euler product givesExponentiation provesSuppose for , of order . As , its middle factor is , the first is because the pole at one is simple, and the final factor is bounded because . The product is , contradicting the lower bound one. ThereforeThis is the three-four-one zero-free-region argument specialized to the line with real part one.
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The Möbius function satisfies for and is zero for . ThereforeThe inverse local factor is . Consequently the inverse under Dirichlet convolution is the Liouville functionwhere counts prime factors with multiplicity. Both functions are multiplicative functions. At with , their convolution is , while its value at one is one. Multiplicativity then proves on every positive integer. Its Dirichlet series is for .
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For a finite set of primes , multiply the absolutely convergent local series. Unique prime factorization and multiplicativity, with , giveThe omitted integers all exceed , so the absolute difference from is at most , which tends to zero. Hence the finite products converge to :This proves the Euler product directly from absolute convergence, rather than treating an infinite formal multiplication as automatically valid.
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The Dirichlet convolution is . Fix with . Absolute convergence of the two Dirichlet series givesThus the double series may be regrouped by , provingThe same estimate proves absolute convergence of the resulting Dirichlet series.
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The lower bound in (ii) makes the image of closed: if converges, the bound makes Cauchy; completeness gives its limit and hence a image preimage. The same bound applies to by (iii), so its kernel is zero. The orthogonal complement identityshows that the image is dense, using the orthogonal decomposition by a closed subspace for its closure. Being both closed and dense, it equals . Thus is onto and bounded below, and by part 3(a)(iii) it has a bounded inverse. Moreover
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Put . For any and any real , minimality givesThe derivative at zero must vanish, so . In a complex Hilbert space, apply the same argument to to get the imaginary part zero as well. In the real case the first conclusion is already enough. Hence
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Let and choose with . The parallelogram law givesThe right side tends to zero. Thus is Cauchy. The closed subspace of a Hilbert space is complete, so . Continuity of the norm gives , proving the distance is attained.
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Evaluation at zero is a bounded linear functional for the uniform norm. DefineIt is linear and satisfies . Since ,The factor is required by the source's basis normalization.
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Since every is nonzero, boundedness givesCancel its norm to obtain . Thus the multiplier sequence is bounded.
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The normalization givesThus has exactly the coefficients prescribed for . Uniqueness yieldsThese are eigenvectors, including the zero-eigenvalue cases.
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For each fixed , the coefficient functional is bounded sinceSuppose and uniformly. Taking coefficients and passing to the limit givesfor every fixed . No uniform bound on is needed for this passage. Uniqueness gives , so has a closed graph. The space is Banach, being the closed subspace defined by inside the continuous functions with the uniform norm. The closed graph theorem therefore proves is bounded.
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For scalars and , linearity of the Fourier coefficients givesThe assumed uniqueness of the function with these coefficients implies . Thus is linear.
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The factorizationhas commuting factors because both are polynomials in . If , their product is invertible. The preceding part would then make invertible, contradicting . ThereforeThis proves the required inclusion without assuming the full spectral mapping theorem.
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If has a bounded inverse, it is onto and , giving the claimed lower bound. Conversely a positive lower bound makes injective. Together with surjectivity it gives an everywhere-defined linear inverse with norm at most . Hence it is bounded, proving the equivalence.
If are individually invertible, their product has inverse . Conversely assume and put , with invertible. Both factors commute with and therefore with . Direct multiplication givesThese are bounded two-sided inverses, so an invertible commuting product has both factors invertible. The commutation assumption is used when verifying the second side of each inverse.
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The bounded operators on a Banach space form a Banach algebra in the operator norm. If , the Neumann series converges absolutely in that norm. Its partial sums satisfyTaking limits proves .
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For a bounded linear operator on a complex Banach space, its spectrum isThe complement is the resolvent set. For a real space, one may use its complexification when speaking of the complex spectrum; the algebraic arguments below apply over the underlying scalar field as well.
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