Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2015 ia Paper 1 4E Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-06
A complex power series with radius of convergence converges absolutely at every with and diverges at every with . This makes no general assertion at : boundary points must be examined separately. The series always converges at . If , no nonzero point lies in the convergence disk; if , the series converges absolutely throughout the complex plane.
If is the zero polynomial, every coefficient vanishes, so . Otherwise let be its degree and its leading coefficient. Since ,The ratio test therefore proves absolute convergence when . For , the terms do not tend to zero, so the series diverges. Thus the polynomial-coefficient power series has for every nonzero polynomial. In fact, it also diverges at every , because does not tend to zero, whether or .