Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2010/ii/paper-2/11f/iv/solution

No such map exists. If fixed the boundary, it would satisfy the hypothesis of part (iii) for every . Choose . Then part (iii) would give , contradicting the stipulated omission of . Equivalently, radial projection from the omitted point would turn into a forbidden retraction.

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