Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2004/ib/paper-4/4e/i/solution

The disc lies in the upper-right half-plane and avoids zero and the negative real axis. On the slit plane take the holomorphic logarithm with . Its derivative is , and . Therefore the holomorphic square root
is analytic and satisfies . One can also construct it without a global branch theorem: fix either scalar square root of and expand by its convergent binomial series. The series converges on the entire disc because . Either sign gives an admissible choice.

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