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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2003 ib Paper 3 13E c Solution by
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Put . Choose a disc about contained in the domain . Part (a) gives a convergent Taylor series there, and the accumulating zeros together with part (b) force all its coefficients to vanish. Thus near .
To propagate this to the entire domain, defineThe set is nonempty by the preceding local argument. Each derivative is continuous, so is closed relative to as the intersection of their zero sets. If , its Taylor series is zero on a disc about , and all derivatives vanish throughout that disc; hence is open relative to . Connectedness forces . Therefore throughout , proving the identity theorem for holomorphic functions rather than merely invoking it.
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