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Past exam of the analysis course of the University of Oxford 2008 A 3 Solution by
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The complex Hahn-Banach theorem says that every bounded complex-linear functional on a linear subspace of a normed complex space extends to the whole space with the same norm.
For the separation assertion choose and . On define . The inequality makes its norm at most one; approximating the distance shows the norm is exactly one. Hahn-Banach gives an extension of norm one annihilating .
Each geometric sequence satisfies . Let be their closed linear span. If , the separation just proved gives a nonzero bounded functional annihilating all . Represent it by and formThe series converges locally uniformly and defines a holomorphic function. It vanishes at every . These distinct points lie in the compact disk , so have an accumulation point inside the domain. The identity theorem gives , hence every Taylor coefficient , contradicting the functional's nonzero norm. Therefore
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