Paper 3, Section II, G

Complex Analysis
Part IB, 2016

(a) Prove Cauchy's theorem for a triangle.

(b) Write down an expression for the winding number I(γ,a)I(\gamma, a) of a closed, piecewise continuously differentiable curve γ\gamma about a point aCa \in \mathbb{C} which does not lie on γ\gamma.

(c) Let UCU \subset \mathbb{C} be a domain, and f:UCf: U \rightarrow \mathbb{C} a holomorphic function with no zeroes in UU. Suppose that for infinitely many positive integers kk the function ff has a holomorphic kk-th root. Show that there exists a holomorphic function F:UCF: U \rightarrow \mathbb{C} such that f=expFf=\exp F.