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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2003 ib Paper 3 13E e Solution by
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Let have the stated zeros but not be identically zero. The origin is an isolated singularity. If it were a removable singularity, the extended holomorphic function would have zeros accumulating at an interior point. The proof in part (c) would force the extension, and then on its domain, to be identically zero.
If the origin were a pole of order , then would have a holomorphic extension with . Continuity would make nonzero on a small disc, so would have no zeros in its punctured disc, again a contradiction. The classification of isolated singularities leaves only an essential singularity at the origin. This argument applies to every function in part (d), not just the particular sine example.
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