Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2017 iii Paper 203 3 c Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-05
Use the Chordal Loewner equation with . For a fixed , let be its Loewner swallowing time, and write and before that time. The Loewner conformal radius is , half of the conformal radius of at . The Koebe quarter theorem bounds the conformal radius above by four times the distance to the boundary. For the reverse comparison, if maps zero to , apply the Schwarz lemma to on the unit disc, where ; it gives . ThusWe use the basic trace theorems that, for , the Loewner trace is continuous and Transience of chordal SLE gives . These facts make its image relatively closed in ; they do not assume the space-filling conclusion. The continuity and transience statements are available in Rohde and Schramm's basic trace theorems.
Take in the supplied SLE interior-point martingale. The derivative exponent vanishes, leavingA nonnegative local martingale is a supermartingale. Applying the optional stopping theorem after localization at its first hit of a level gives the maximal inequality for a nonnegative supermartingaleThus almost surely.
Suppose the Loewner trace avoids some open ball whose closure is inside . Before , the whole open ball is in : a connected open ball disjoint from the trace cannot be partly in the unbounded connected component. Hence . The bound on forces throughout this interval, for a positive random constant .
The Chordal Loewner equation and its derivative yieldThe first identity forces , since otherwise becomes negative. At a finite maximal lifetime, ; otherwise the continuous Loewner driving function and the ordinary differential equation continue past that time. Integrating the last identity, using , givescontradicting . Thus every fixed rational ball inside is hit almost surely. A countable intersection makes the trace a dense subset almost surely, and its relatively closed image, established by continuity and transience, then contains all of :This proves space-filling SLE above parameter eight. It rules out unvisited open regions, rather than inferring visits merely from membership in the filled compact H-hulls. The choice does not address the critical value eight.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2018 ib Paper 3 13F b Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
This is Schwarz lemma. Define for and . The removable singularity makes holomorphic. Applying the maximum modulus principle to on disks of radius , then letting , gives . Hence
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2018 ib Paper 3 13F c Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
Because avoids the closed negative real axis, its principal square root is holomorphic, satisfies , and has . The Cayley transform between the half-plane and diskmaps the right half-plane into the unit disk and has . By Schwarz lemma, . When ,Thusso one may take the universal constant .
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2024 ii Paper 3 23H Solution Created 2026-09-23 Updated 2026-09-25
In local coordinates around and , a nonconstant analytic map has the formAfter shrinking the chart, has an analytic th root, so a change of coordinate makes the map . It maps small discs onto neighborhoods of the origin; hence every nonconstant analytic map of Riemann surfaces is open. If is compact and connected, is compact and therefore closed, and it is also nonempty and open. Thus .
For with , the removable-singularity theorem makes analytic. On , , and the maximum principle gives the same bound throughout . Applying the Schwarz lemma to an automorphism and to shows that every automorphism fixing zero is
If is an analytic isomorphism fixing zero, continuity of implies that the preimage of every closed disc is compact. Hence as , and defining gives an analytic isomorphism of the Riemann sphere.
Consequently an automorphism of fixing zero does extend to . A general disc automorphism need not: for ,has a finite pole and cannot extend to an entire isomorphism.