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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2025 ii Paper 2 24G iv Solution by
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Yes. Suppose is not identically zero. Thenis a nonempty open set, and forces on . Harmonic functions satisfy unique continuation: locally they are real parts of holomorphic functions and hence are real analytic, so a harmonic function vanishing on a nonempty open subset of a connected domain vanishes everywhere. Thus . Interchanging and proves that one factor must be identically zero.
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