Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2021/ii/paper-1/14e/b/solution

An analytic continuation of from to is a holomorphic function on whose restriction to the nonempty overlap agrees with .
Suppose and are two such continuations. Both equal on , so
on that nonempty open set. Since is connected, the identity theorem gives
Thus analytic continuation to is unique.

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