Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-geometry-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2009/a/2/iii/solution

The given Weierstrass elliptic function is even, by replacing the lattice index with . Differentiation gives
For any , reindexing the sum shows . Thus is constant off the lattice. Replacing by and using evenness changes this difference to its negative, so and . Hence is doubly periodic.
It therefore descends to a meromorphic function on , with a double pole at zero modulo the lattice and no others. A meromorphic function is a holomorphic map to the Riemann sphere, sending poles to infinity. Locally at zero, is holomorphic and vanishes there, so the sphere chart at infinity supplies the required extension. The map is nonconstant because it has a pole.

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