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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2001 iii Paper 7 1 ii Solution by
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The complement of a compact planar set has a unique unbounded component: outside a large disc lies a connected exterior, and every unbounded component meets that exterior. The Neumann series for converges in both algebras, so this exterior belongs to . Part i retains the whole component of containing it. That retained component is unbounded and therefore is also the unique unbounded component of . The two unbounded components coincide.
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