Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2003 ib Paper 3 13E e Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2019 ii Paper 3 23F Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
Let be the universal covering map. Since the complex plane is a simply connected domain, the lifting criterion for a covering space gives a holomorphic lift between one-dimensional complex tori such thatFor every , the difference belongs to the discrete period lattice . It depends continuously on , so it is constant. Differentiating shows that the derivative is -periodic. It is bounded on the compact closure of a fundamental parallelogram, and periodicity makes it bounded on all of . The Liouville theorem therefore makes constant, and henceThus every holomorphic map has an affine lift of a holomorphic map between one-dimensional complex tori. If “map of complex tori” means an identity-preserving map, choose ; then , so is the required linear map. Without that convention the statement must say affine, since a nonzero translation in a group of the torus lifts to .
The Weierstrass elliptic function of isThe subtracted term gives the Normal convergence of the Weierstrass elliptic-function series away from . PutThe Laurent coefficients of the Weierstrass elliptic function at zero giveSet and . Direct substitution shows that the principal part and constant term ofvanish at zero. Since is an elliptic function, translation gives the same cancellation at every point of the period lattice. Every apparent isolated singularity is therefore a removable singularity, so is an entire function. It is periodic and hence bounded on the translates of a compact fundamental parallelogram. The Liouville theorem gives , which proves the Weierstrass elliptic differential equation
Finally suppose that is a biholomorphic group homomorphism. Its identity-preserving lift has the form by the first part. Since the inverse map also lifts linearly,Choose a -basis of . Multiplication by is then represented by a unimodular matrix . As a real-linear transformation of , it has determinant ; hence and . The characteristic polynomial of and the Cayley-Hamilton theorem giveThis already has the required form with and . Moreover , so forces . Thus is a root of unity, of order , , , , or , completing the description of an automorphism of a one-dimensional complex torus.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2021 ib Paper 1 12G a Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
The Laurent theorem says that if is analytic on an annulusthen it has a unique Laurent seriesconverging locally uniformly on that annulus, wherefor any positively oriented circle in the annulus around .
An isolated singularity at is a point at which is not analytic although it is analytic on some punctured neighbourhood. It is removable when every with vanishes; it is a pole of order when and for ; and it is essential when infinitely many negative-index coefficients are nonzero.
For ,For ,The coefficients are unique after the annulus is fixed; these expansions differ because they represent the function on different annuli. At zero the first expansion has principal part , so zero is a simple pole with residue .
Residue Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
The residue of a meromorphic function at an isolated singularity is the coefficient of in its Laurent series. At a simple pole,