Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2021/iii/paper-115/2/b/solution

The overlap is in the coordinate , and radial projection is a deformation retraction onto . The homotopy invariance of de Rham cohomology identifies its first de Rham cohomology with that of , and the identification is compatible with integration around the unit circle. Hence the same integral map is an isomorphism.

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