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Past exam of the metric spaces and complex analysis course of the University of Oxford 2023 4 b Solution by
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We prove the Casorati-Weierstrass theorem by contradiction. Fix an allowed . If the stated image were not a dense set in , there would be a disc disjoint from it. HenceThe holomorphic function is bounded by on that punctured disc. By the permitted Riemann removable singularity theorem, it extends to a holomorphic function on the full disc.
If , then is not identically zero, since is nowhere zero away from . Its Taylor series therefore has a finite first nonzero coefficient: otherwise the identity theorem would make it identically zero. Write with and . Thenhas a pole of order at , since multiplying by gives the nonzero limit .
Both cases contradict an essential singularity. Thus
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