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This document contains a tutorial sheet with 14 problems related to complex analysis. The problems cover topics such as: 1) Finding the domain and range of complex functions and writing them in the form w = u(x,y) + iv(x,y). 2) Examining the limit of a complex function as z approaches a point. 3) Proving an identity relating the nth roots of unity. 4) Checking if functions can be made continuous by prescribing a value at z = 0. 5) Applying the mean value theorem to complex functions. 6) Finding points of differentiability of complex functions. 7) Showing that certain functions do not

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This document contains a tutorial sheet with 14 problems related to complex analysis. The problems cover topics such as: 1) Finding the domain and range of complex functions and writing them in the form w = u(x,y) + iv(x,y). 2) Examining the limit of a complex function as z approaches a point. 3) Proving an identity relating the nth roots of unity. 4) Checking if functions can be made continuous by prescribing a value at z = 0. 5) Applying the mean value theorem to complex functions. 6) Finding points of differentiability of complex functions. 7) Showing that certain functions do not

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INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GANDHINAGAR

DISCIPLINE OF MATHEMATICS
MA 201: Autumn, 2014-15 Tutorial Sheet No.2

1. Find the domain and the range of each of the following functions and also write each function
in the form w = u(x, y) + iv(x, y) :
(a) f(z) =
z+5
|z3|
for |z 3| = 10.
(b) f(z) = z + 7 for Re(z) > 0.
(c) f(z) = z
2
for z in the rst quadrant Re(z) 0, Im(z) 0.
(d) f(z) =
1
z
for 0 < |z| 1.
(e) f(z) = 2z
3
for z in the quarter-disc |z| < 1, 0 < Argz <

2
.
2. Let f : C/{1} C be dened by
f(z) =
z 1
z 1
, where C is the set of all complex numbers.
Examine whether lim
z1
f(z) exists.
3. If 1 = z
0
, z
1
, z
2
, . . . , z
n1
are distinct nth roots of unity, prove that

n1
j=1
(z z
j
) =
n1

j=0
z
j
.
4. Check if the following functions can be prescribed a value at z = 0, so that they become
continuous:
f(z) =
|z|
2
z
; f(z) =
z + 1
|z| 1
; f(z) =
z
z
.
5. Let f(z) = z
3
. For z
1
= 1 and z
2
= i, show that there do not exist any point c on the line
y = 1 x joining z
1
and z
2
such that
f(z
1
) f(z
2
)
z
1
z
2
= f

(c).
(Mean value theorem does not extend to complex derivatives).
6. Show that the function f(z) = z is not dierentiable at any point of C. Find the points of
dierentiability of the function f
a
(z) = (z a) Re(z a), for a given a C.
7. Show that f

(z) does not exist at any point z when (a) f(z) = Re z (b) f(z) = Im z.
1
8. Let u and v denote the real and imaginary components of the function f dened by
f(z) =

z
2
z
when z = 0,
0 if z = 0.
Show that the Cauchy-Riemann equations are satised at the origin z = (0, 0) but f

(0) does
not exist.
9. If f is analytic in a domain with f

0. Prove that f is a constant function.


10. Let be an open connected subset of C and f : C be a dierentiable function. Show
that the function f = u + iv is constant if
(a) either of the functions u or v is constant, or
(b) |f(z)| is constant for all z or
(c) if there exists an IR such that f(z) = |f(z)|e
i
for all z .
11. If v is a harmonic conjugate of u(u, v real-valued), prove that the functions uv and u
2
v
2
are also harmonic.
12. Prove that, if u is a real valued harmonic function in an open unit disc D, then any two
harmonic conjugates of u in D dier by a constant.
13. What are real valued harmonic functions u on D such that u
2
is also harmonic?
14. Find a harmonic conjugate, if it exists, of the following functions:
(a) u(x, y) = 2xy.
(b) u(r, ) = r
n
cos n, n N.
(c) u(x, y) = x
2
y
2
+ x + y
y
x
2
+y
2
, (x, y) = (0, 0).
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