Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2024 ib Paper 4 2F Solution Created 2026-09-23 Updated 2026-09-25
A subset is connected if it cannot be written as , where are disjoint, nonempty sets open in the subspace topology on .
If were disconnected as , continuity would make and a disconnection of . Thus the continuous image of a connected space is connected.
For with the discrete topology, a nonconstant continuous gives the disconnectionConversely, a disconnection defines a continuous nonconstant function by assigning on and on . Hence is connected exactly when every such is constant.
Finally suppose is connected but is a disconnection. The intersections and cannot both be nonempty, so, after interchanging , we have . For any , the relatively open neighbourhood of in is disjoint from , contradicting . Therefore the closure of a connected set is connected.
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A function is holomorphic when it is complex differentiable at every point of the open connected set . Morera's theorem states that a continuous function on a domain is holomorphic if its integral around every triangle whose interior lies in the domain is zero.
The integrand is continuous jointly in on , so the displayed integral defines a continuous function. For any triangle , Fubini's theorem and the Cauchy integral theorem giveMorera's theorem therefore proves that is entire.
The function is holomorphic on but has no antiderivative there, because an antiderivative would integrate to zero around every closed curve whereasThis is the standard period obstruction to a holomorphic antiderivative.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2024 ii Paper 1 13L e Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
Two natural improvements are:
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Taking Laplace transforms and using givesHence the transfer function isIts pole is at , and its causal impulse response isIt is absolutely integrable exactly when
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2024 ii Paper 1 16I ii Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
Start with the two families of uniqueness and injectivity clauses from part (i), and for every add the finite clauseThis clause is a legitimate proposition because is finite and nonempty. It makes every have a value in , while the earlier clauses make that value unique and make the resulting function injective. Conversely, every injection with satisfies all these clauses.
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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2024 ii Paper 1 16I Solution Created 2026-09-23 Updated 2026-09-25
The soundness theorem for propositional logic says that if , then every valuation satisfying every member of also satisfies .
The proposed function need not respect the connectives. For example, if a primitive proposition is independent of , then neither nor is provable from , so the definition gives
Order the consistent supersets of by inclusion. The union of a chain is consistent, since a finite proof of a contradiction would already use assumptions from one member of the chain. Zorn lemma therefore gives a maximal consistent extension . It is deductively closed: if , adjoining preserves consistency, so maximality forces . Moreover, for every , exactly one of and belongs to . They cannot both belong by consistency; if neither belonged, the inconsistency of both proper extensions would give and , again a contradiction. The usual induction on formulae now shows thatdefines a valuation satisfying , and hence .
Now suppose every finite subset of has a model. By soundness every finite subset is consistent. Any proof of a contradiction from uses only finitely many assumptions, so itself is consistent. Applying the preceding maximal-consistent-extension construction gives a model of . This proves the propositional compactness theorem.
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A nonempty topological space is irreducible when it is not the union of two proper closed subsets, equivalently when any two nonempty open subsets intersect.
The Zariski topology on is Noetherian because satisfies the ascending chain condition on ideals. Suppose a closed set that is not a finite union of irreducible closed sets were minimal among such counterexamples. It is reducible, say with both proper closed subsets. Minimality expresses each as a finite union of irreducible closed sets, and combining those decompositions contradicts the choice of . Thus every closed has a finite irreducible decomposition.
Using , the second defining polynomial reduces toConsequentlyEach component is the image of and is isomorphic to , hence irreducible. In characteristic two the two displayed components coincide.
Suppose a polynomial vanishes on every . Thenas an entire function. These exponential-polynomial functions are linearly independent: applying kills the term with largest exponent, while it acts injectively on for ; induction on the number of terms finishes the proof. Hence every is zero, so no nonzero polynomial vanishes on the graph. Its Zariski closure is all of .
Finally refine an open cover of an affine variety by distinguished opens , choosing one inside an original member around each point. Since these distinguished opens cover,The Hilbert Nullstellensatz implies that the generate the unit ideal. Thusfor finitely many of them, so cover . The corresponding original open sets form a finite subcover. This is quasi-compactness of an affine variety.
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Let . The generalized-inverse identitygivesand similarly . Thus the coupled variables have the required marginal distributions.
At every continuity point of the nondecreasing function , convergence of the distribution functions at continuity points of impliesIndeed, values just below and above can be chosen at continuity points of and trap the two generalized inverses. A monotone function has at most countably many discontinuities, so this convergence holds for Lebesgue-almost every . Therefore almost surely. This is the quantile coupling for convergence in distribution.
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Lorentz invariance requires and to transform as four-vectors, as a scalar, and as scalars, and the integration domain and boundary conditions to respect the transformation. Then every contracted term and are Lorentz invariant.
Under , the field strength is unchanged. The source term changes by a boundary term pluswhich vanishes for a conserved current and suitable boundary behaviour of . The mass term is not gauge invariant. Thus the action has the usual local gauge invariance whenwith the gauge function or its boundary contribution suitably controlled. For , the mass term breaks this gauge symmetry.
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A generalized linear model has three components:
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An elliptic function is a meromorphic with two real-linearly independent periods . A fundamental cell may be taken as the half-open parallelogramwith chosen so that its boundary contains no zero or pole under discussion. The argument principle and cancellation on opposite sides show that a nonconstant elliptic function has the same number of zeros and poles in a cell, counting multiplicity.
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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2024 ii Paper 2 13D c Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
Choose a fundamental parallelogram with no pole on its boundary. Opposite sides are translates traversed in opposite directions, so periodicity givesThe residue theorem then givesA lone simple pole has a nonzero residue by definition of its order, so an elliptic function cannot have exactly one simple pole in a fundamental cell.
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For the fixed effective enumeration of unary partial computable functions, the infinite-domain index set is
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The Rice theorem states that every nontrivial index set of partial computable functions is not computable.
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Fix . The property defining depends only on the partial function computed, so it is an index set. It is nontrivial: an index of the nowhere-defined function is outside it, whereas an index of the total constant function has infinite domain and range , and hence lies in it. The Rice theorem now shows that this infinite-domain range-restriction index set is not computable.