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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2023 iii Paper 115 2 c Solution by
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We induct on . The claim is immediate for . In the stated cover, is contractible. The homotopydeformation retracts onto the hyperplane , which is . Moreover,deformation retracts onto .
The Mayer--Vietoris sequence for the de Rham complex containsFor odd , the group on the right vanishes by contractibility and the induction hypothesis, while the group on the left vanishes because is positive and even and is neither nor . Thus the middle group vanishes. For , the preceding mapis surjective because all three spaces are connected, so the connecting map into is zero. Therefore all odd de Rham cohomology groups of vanish.
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