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Past exam of the metric spaces and complex analysis course of the University of Oxford 2017 4 a i Solution by
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The identity theorem says that two holomorphic functions on a connected domain which agree on a set with an accumulation point inside that domain agree everywhere there.
No such entire function exists. On the subsequence indexed by even numbers, the proposed function equals . The identity theorem would force throughout . At the points indexed by odd numbers it is instead required to equal , a contradiction since for positive . The accumulation point zero lies inside the assumed domain of holomorphy, which is essential to this argument.
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