Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2013 iii Paper 26 1 ii Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-07
The equal rooted counts imply that the self-avoiding walk generating function is . The Cauchy-Hadamard theorem identifies the radius of a power series as the reciprocal of . ConsequentlyEquivalently, the root test gives convergence when and divergence when . At the positive boundary , the preceding infimum formula gives , so this particular series diverges there as well.