Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2017/iii/paper-339/3/b/i/solution

Since is real on the unit circle,
Multiply the difference by . It is an ordinary polynomial of polynomial degree at most vanishing at every point of the unit circle. A nonzero polynomial has only finitely many roots of a polynomial, so all its coefficients vanish. This proves the conjugate symmetry of trigonometric polynomial coefficients:
For arbitrary nonzero complex , coefficient substitution now gives precisely
Equivalently . The complex conjugation on the right applies to the whole value, including the coefficients; it cannot simply be discarded away from the circle.
The PDF additionally assumes . Then , so the ensuing polynomial has polynomial degree exactly and nonzero constant term. These clauses and this subpart are absent from the damaged TeX, but present in the PDF.

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