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Past exam of the geometry course of the University of Oxford 2011 2 b i Solution by
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Let and . Its fundamental parallelogram with opposite sides identified is a torus, so . The Weierstrass elliptic function is even and doubly periodic. One way to verify the latter from its series is to differentiate: the locally normally convergent derivative series iswhich is absolutely convergent away from the lattice and periodic by reindexing. Thus is constant. Evaluating at and using evenness shows that this constant is zero for each generating period.
Therefore descends to a meromorphic function on , with one double pole at . Viewed as a map to the Riemann sphere, a pole is a holomorphic point in the target coordinate . The map is consequently holomorphic everywhere and
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