Solution

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Statement (iii) is false. Let be a thin open annulus about the unit circle, let , and split the circle into two proper closed arcs whose union is the whole circle. Each arc has connected complement, so polynomial approximation of the reciprocal on a proper circular arc gives uniform polynomial approximations to on each separately.
If polynomials converged uniformly to on , then uniform convergence on the unit circle and the Cauchy integral theorem would give
a contradiction.

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