AMM 12481 (Neat Generalization of Maximum Modulus Principle)
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Source: American Mathematical Monthly Volume 131 (2024), Issue 7: https://doi.org/10.1080/00029890.2024.2351727
12481.Proposed by Bernhard Elsner, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Versailles, France, and Eric Müller, Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany. Let be holomorphic functions on , where is an open, connected subset of . Suppose that the function given by takes a maximum value in . Must each function be constant on ?
Let be a probability distribution on the set of nonnegative integers. Select a number according to this distribution and repeat the selection independently until either a zero or an already selected number is obtained. Write the selected numbers in a row in order of selection without the last one. Below this line, write the numbers again in increasing order. Let denote the event that the number has been selected and that it is in the same place in both lines. Prove that the events are mutually independent, and .
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