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Past exam of the metric spaces and complex analysis course of the University of Oxford 2015 4 a i Solution by
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Choose and traverse the circle counterclockwise, so it has positive orientation of a contour. The Cauchy coefficient formula gives, for every nonnegative integer ,The smaller radius matters: the holomorphic function is only known on , so its values on need not exist. To see directly why this contour integral selects , the power series converges uniformly on , allowing uniform convergence and contour integration to justify integrating term by term. The contour integral of is zero for and for . Thus all other terms disappear.
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