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Past exam of the metric spaces and complex analysis course of the University of Oxford 2017 4 a iii Solution by
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No such entire function exists. If it did, the entire function would vanish at the distinct points , whose accumulation point is one. The identity theorem would give on all of .
At zero this forces . Differentiating the identity gives , impossible at zero. Equivalently, a squared holomorphic function has an even-order zero, whereas has a simple zero. This is the obstruction expressed by no entire square root of the identity function; a square-root branch near one cannot extend holomorphically through zero.
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