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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2008 iii Paper 12 1 a Solution by
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The assertion is true. The assumed finite multiplicity means that is not identically zero and has an isolated zero of order at . Choose so that and has no other zeros in this closed disc. On its boundary,The joint holomorphy established above gives uniformly on that circle as . For sufficiently small , therefore, . By Rouché's theorem, has exactly zeros in , counted with multiplicity. In particular it has at least one zero in . This preserves the total local zero count, without asserting that the zeros remain together.
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