Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2016 iii Paper 105 1 iii Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-06
Set . The equation is equivalent to . Because is continuously differentiable, the Cauchy-Riemann equations imply that it is a holomorphic function of . Its convergent complex Taylor series restricts to a real power series along , so is a real analytic function.
For smooth-data instability of the Cauchy-Riemann Cauchy problem, chooseThese are entire functions and satisfy the equation. Their initial derivatives obey , so every finite sum tends to zero. ButThus analytic solutions can exist while continuous dependence on initial data fails for this smooth-data topology.
The Cauchy estimate follows directly from the differentiated Cauchy integral formula:The circle has length , giving the bound for every integer .
Put and integrate on the straight segment . For fixed , a disc centred at with radius approaching stays inside . Applying the first-derivative Cauchy estimate there givesIntegrating its modulus and taking the supremum over is exactly the asserted integral estimate. The source cancels from .
To obtain a contraction mapping, use the weighted holomorphic norm on a shrinking time domain. Its finite-norm space consists of holomorphic functions on with zero initial value; the apparent quotient at is interpreted by a limit. Completeness follows because convergence in this norm implies locally uniform convergence of holomorphic functions, including near , and the limiting pointwise bounds give convergence in the norm.
Here is the explicit contraction estimate on a shrinking holomorphic domain. Write , , , and chooseThen and . The whole auxiliary polydisc lies inside , and its supremum of is at most . ConsequentlyThus . Choose . The source is bounded on the closed polydisc, say by , and . Therefore maps the Banach space into itself and is a strict contraction mapping. The Banach fixed-point theorem gives a holomorphic fixed point with . Differentiating the integral identity yields , establishing this case of the Cauchy-Kovalevskaya theorem.
Finally, near each real initial point, a real analytic function has a holomorphic extension . Apply the same construction to with and source , restricting the discs if necessary. This gives a local real analytic function of with the prescribed initial value. Equivalently the solution is wherever the extension is defined.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2017 ib Paper 3 13F Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-05
Fix . The Cauchy integral formula and the uniformly convergent geometric series on giveDefiningthe remainder after degree has modulus at most , which tends to zero uniformly on each smaller disk. Differentiating the integral formula at zero identifies , independently of . Since is an entire function, can be chosen larger than any given , proving the global Taylor series.
For the requested radius , the same coefficient integral gives the Cauchy estimateTo characterize equality in the Cauchy coefficient estimate, parametrize its circle:If , the identity theorem gives . Otherwise equality in the modulus bound requires the continuous integrand to have both constant modulus and constant complex argument. To see this directly, rotate its average to the positive real axis: its real part is bounded above by , and equality of its average with forces that real part to equal everywhere. Thus on the circle. The identity theorem extends that equality to the plane. Conversely every such monomial attains the bound. Thereforeincluding the zero function and, when , arbitrary constant functions.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2017 iii Paper 105 1 2 e Solution 2026-10-05
The coordinate change has inverse , . Thus the coefficient function needed after changing variables isThe PDF's displayed formula has an undefined subscript and writes the forward change in the argument. It is not the coefficient pullback by the stated coordinates; the inverse expression above is the one used in transforming the equation. The forward polynomial composition, if intended instead, has the same type of uniform bounds, but is not that pullback.
For and , the inverse image lies in the fixed compact subset specified by , , whose Euclidean radius is less than one. A real analytic function extends holomorphically to a complex neighborhood of this compact set: local extensions agree on overlaps by uniqueness, and a finite covering gives a common smaller neighborhood. The polynomial inverse maps a fixed small complex neighborhood of the closed half-ball into that neighborhood, uniformly in . The extensions are bounded there by a common constant . Applying the multivariable Cauchy estimate on equal-radius polydiscs givesThis is uniform analyticity under polynomial coordinate changes. The argument gives a compact margin and a common complex radius, not merely separate analyticity for each parameter.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2017 iii Paper 132 1 a Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-05
Fix . We prove the Riemann mapping theorem in this case by maximizing a normalized derivative. Choose . Since is a simply connected domain and never vanishes, it has a holomorphic square root . This is injective, and is disjoint from : equality up to sign would first force the original points to coincide. Choose and with . The ball is omitted, so is a bounded univalent function. Scaling and composing with an automorphism of the unit disk produces an injective holomorphic function with and .
Let be the family of all such normalized univalent functions. A Cauchy estimate in a small disk about bounds their derivatives, so is finite and positive. Choose a maximizing sequence in this normal family. Montel theorem gives a subsequence converging uniformly on compact subsets to . Its derivative at is . The maximum modulus principle puts its image in , and Hurwitz's theorem implies that a nonconstant limit of injective holomorphic functions is injective. Thus the maximum is attained.
If is omitted, then . Put . A holomorphic square root of exists, is injective, and takes values in . Compose with and a rotation to normalize it. Writing , the new derivative has magnitudea contradiction. Therefore maps onto . The Cayley transform between the half-plane and disk now givesIts inverse is holomorphic by the holomorphic inverse function theorem, so this is a biholomorphism. The proper-subset hypothesis was used to choose ; the whole complex plane cannot be mapped this way, by Liouville theorem.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2018 ib Paper 4 4F a Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
The Cauchy integral formula and its differentiated form areIf is entire and , the Cauchy estimate gives . Letting yields for every . Thus is constant, which is Liouville theorem.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2021 ib Paper 2 12B a Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
Write the Taylor series of the entire function asThe Cauchy estimate on the circle givesIf , letting gives . Since is odd,
For the second question, suppose such an existed. It never vanishes, so is analytic on andThe Riemann removable singularity theorem extends analytically across zero with . Applying the result just proved with , , and makes a polynomial of degree at most zero. It must then be identically zero, contradicting away from zero. Therefore no such function exists.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2021 ib Paper 3 13G Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
Fix and letFor and , the geometric series givesThe series converges uniformly on every smaller closed disc, so it may be integrated term by term along the curve. Hencewhich is a power series about .
If is holomorphic on a neighbourhood of the closed disc , the Cauchy integral formula saysDifferentiation under the integral is valid uniformly on smaller discs and gives the Cauchy derivative formulaThis proves inductively that every holomorphic function has complex derivatives of every order. In particular,
Now suppose locally uniformly on . Given a compact set , choose finitely many closed discs whose slightly larger concentric discs remain in and whose interiors cover . Applying the derivative formula to on the larger boundary circles gives a uniform Cauchy estimatewhere is the compact union of those circles. The right-hand side tends to zero, proving that
Finally, choose open neighbourhoods of the closed discs so small thatlies in the given neighbourhood on which is holomorphic. Inside that neighbourhood choose a positively oriented piecewise smooth contour surrounding . It may be chosen as the boundary of a slightly enlarged lens and split into arcsso that stays away from and stays away from . DefineandBecause each arc avoids the corresponding disc, these formulas define holomorphic functions on possibly smaller neighbourhoods . On their overlap, the Cauchy integral formula for the full contour gives
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2022 iii Paper 106 4 a Solution Created 2026-09-28 Updated 2026-10-03
By the spectral radius formula, . ChooseThe formula gives a constant such that for every . Since is holomorphic on the unit disc, the Cauchy estimate on the circle of radius gives . ThereforeThus converges absolutely in operator norm.
Uniform analyticity under polynomial coordinate changes Created 2026-10-05 Updated 2026-10-06
Suppose a family of polynomial coordinate maps has a fixed bound on its degrees and coefficients depending continuously on a compact parameter set, and sends a fixed real compact set into a compact subset of the domain of a real analytic function. A common complex neighborhood can then be chosen so the compositions are holomorphic and uniformly bounded there. The multivariable Cauchy estimate gives uniform factorial derivative bounds. For the change , the coefficient pullback uses its inverse: .