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Logarithmic branch point

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The complex logarithm has infinite-sheeted branching: continuing once around its zero changes its value by 2πi. Multiplication by a function vanishing at that point need not remove the branching. For example zmlogz with positive integer m tends to zero but changes by 2πizm after continuation around zero. This remains a branch point, rather than a removable singularity, because no single-valued holomorphic function exists on a full punctured neighbourhood. The coordinate w=1/z tests logarithmic branching at infinity in the same way.

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  • Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 2 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge / 2006 / Paper 2 / 3 / i / c / Solution
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