Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2017 iii Paper 137 2 Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-05
Extend the Dirichlet character periodically to all integers, putting when . Its Dirichlet L-function, initially on , isThe Euler product follows from unique prime factorization and absolute convergence; a Dirichlet character is completely multiplicative on this extension. Write for the principal Dirichlet character, equal to one on units and zero elsewhere.
For a nonprincipal Dirichlet character , character orthogonality gives . Explicitly, multiplication by a unit with permutes the unit residues and multiplies this sum by , forcing it to vanish. For setThe numerator is at zero and the denominator is , so is bounded, indeed analytic, near zero; it decays exponentially at infinity. Initially for , absolute convergence justifiesThis Mellin transform integral is holomorphic for , locally uniformly in , and division by the Gamma function proves the requested analytic continuation to the left of the line one.
In fact, the same argument proves Mellin continuation of a nonprincipal Dirichlet L-function to the entire plane. If at zero, subtract this Taylor polynomial on and add its explicit integrals:The last integral is holomorphic on . Its possible simple poles at nonpositive integers cancel against zeros of . Letting increase shows that is an entire function, without any primitivity assumption.
For real , use the absolutely convergent Euler product logarithmThe higher-power remainder has the uniform estimateFor a nonprincipal Dirichlet character , invoke the allowed Nonvanishing of a nonprincipal Dirichlet L-function at one. Its holomorphy and nonvanishing give a holomorphic logarithm on a small disk about one. On the connected real interval , differs from this logarithm by a fixed element of : the difference is continuous with exponential one. Thus the prime-character sum near one is bounded. This branch argument is needed for complex-valued Dirichlet characters.
For ,The finite product has a positive limit as , and the residue-one pole of the Riemann zeta function givesHere for nonprincipal Dirichlet characters means bounded complex magnitude.
Finally, for a residue class coprime to , Orthogonality of Dirichlet characters givesOnly primes not dividing occur, so the character orthogonality applies to every term. This sum diverges as . A finite collection of primes would give a bounded sum, a contradiction. Every reduced residue class contains infinitely many primes. This is the Dirichlet theorem on primes in arithmetic progressions; the coprimality hypothesis is essential.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2017 iii Paper 203 4 d Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-05
Before the Loewner swallowing time , put and . The Itô formula applied to the holomorphic logarithm in the complex upper half-plane givesTaking imaginary parts yields the SLE angle processFor the drift vanishes, sois a continuous local martingale. Since , every localized stopped version is a bounded true martingale. After resolving the lifetime issue below, the dominated convergence theorem applied to conditional expectations removes localization and gives a true bounded martingale.
For completeness, there is no finite lifetime ambiguity for a fixed interior in this parameter range. The preceding Bessel process and Conformal Markov property of SLE argument gives a simple trace staying in the interior, so no point is swallowed in a disconnected pocket. If were finite, the trace would have to reach , forcing the Loewner conformal radius to tend to zero by the Koebe quarter theorem. ButThe Dambis-Dubins-Schwarz theorem says that a bounded continuous local martingale cannot have infinite quadratic variation before a finite terminal time: that would require a Brownian motion to stay in a bounded interval for all clock times. Therefore cannot tend to zero at a finite , a contradiction. Thus almost surely for each fixed . This proves the SLE4 angle martingale assertion: the angle is a bounded continuous martingale. In particular . The upper-half-plane branch of the argument is used throughout.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2018 ib Paper 3 13F d Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
No. The nonvanishing holomorphic functions satisfy , butAvoiding zero alone permits an unbounded holomorphic logarithm's real part; the omitted ray in part (c) was what constrained the image after taking a square root.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2018 iii Paper 203 3 c Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-05
Set for . The singularity is removable, with . Injectivity of the conformal map makes away from zero, and conformality makes as well. Since the disc is simply connected, has a holomorphic logarithm. Therefore is a harmonic function, including at zero, and .
The mean value property for harmonic functions gives, for every ,For general , boundary values mean radial limits, rather than a continuous extension of to every point of the circle. The boundary logarithmic mean of a univalent function justifies taking : the Koebe distortion theorem bounds below by , while the standard integral-mean bound for a univalent function, for , gives uniform integrability of its positive logarithm. Radial limits exist almost everywhere, and passage to the integral follows. Thus, writing for arc length on the unit circle,The expression on the left is the logarithm of the conformal radius of at .
Prime-character sum near one 2026-10-05
For real , the logarithm defined by the Euler product of a Dirichlet L-function differs from by a quantity of absolute value at most . If , a local holomorphic logarithm differs from this continuous logarithm by one fixed multiple of on a short real interval, so stays bounded as . For the principal Dirichlet character, the pole of the Riemann zeta function instead gives . Orthogonality of Dirichlet characters then makes the sum over any reduced residue class diverge, proving infinitude of its primes.