Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2008 ii Paper 4 2F b Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
Use the Runge exhaustion of a slit disk, with the principal argument :These are nested compact subsets of . Their complements are connected: the inner disk and exterior region join through the omitted sector around the negative real radius. Every compact subset of has positive distance from zero, the unit circle and the slit, so it is contained in for all sufficiently large .
Since is holomorphic on , it is holomorphic on a neighborhood of each . The polynomial Runge theorem gives with . Given any compact , eventually , so the same estimate holds on . ThereforeThe nested exhaustion makes this one sequence work simultaneously on all compact subsets.