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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2002 ib Paper 2 4G Solution by
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Use the one-sided product bound for an entire function by consideringThis is an entire function, and gives . If , then everywhere. The Liouville theorem therefore makes constant.
Because an exponential never vanishes, differentiating yields , and hence . Thus is constant. If that constant is zero, ; otherwise takes values in the two square roots of one nonzero constant. Continuity on the connected space prevents switching between those two values. Therefore is constant.
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