Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-algebra-analysis-and-differential-equations-2-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2006/analysis/6/solution

At a zero , Taylor's theorem gives near . If some coefficient is nonzero, let be the least such index. Then with , and continuity makes nonzero on a smaller disc. Thus is an isolated zero. A limit point of zeros is also a zero by continuity and cannot be isolated, so all Taylor coefficients there vanish and vanishes on a nonempty open disc.
Let be the set of points having a neighborhood on which vanishes. It is nonempty and open. A point in its relative closure either already belongs to or is a limit point of distinct zeros; the preceding argument puts it in in either case. Thus is also relatively closed. Connectedness of gives , proving is identically zero.
For conjugate reflection, the disc is invariant under conjugation, and
Hence is holomorphic, with derivative . If is real on the real diameter, then for real , . The holomorphic difference therefore has zeros accumulating at zero, and the identity theorem just proved gives on the entire disc.

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