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Complex Analysis Qualifying

This document provides the instructions and problems for a qualifying examination in complex analysis. It lists 10 problems, and instructs students to answer any 8 problems by circling the numbers. The problems cover topics like Harnack's inequality, Rouche's theorem, contour integration, properties of analytic functions, normal families, the Dirichlet problem, conformal mappings, and harmonic functions. Students are asked to show their work to receive credit.

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Complex Analysis Qualifying

This document provides the instructions and problems for a qualifying examination in complex analysis. It lists 10 problems, and instructs students to answer any 8 problems by circling the numbers. The problems cover topics like Harnack's inequality, Rouche's theorem, contour integration, properties of analytic functions, normal families, the Dirichlet problem, conformal mappings, and harmonic functions. Students are asked to show their work to receive credit.

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Qualifying Examination: Complex Analysis

10:00am - 01:00pm, June 6, 2015

Instruction: Answer any eight questions from the following ten problems.
Circle the problem numbers to be graded. Show your work.

Problem 1 State and prove the Harnack’s Inequality for harmonic functions

Problem 2 State and prove the Rouche’s Theorem

Problem 3 Let ffn g be a sequence of analytic functions on a region G such


that ffn g ! f uniformly on compact subsets, and a 2 G: Suppose that each fn
0
is one-to-one and f (a) > 0: Show that f is one-to-one and fn0 (a) is non-zero
for su¢ ciently large n.

Problem 4 Evaluate the integral


Z 1
1
dx:
0 x4 +1
Problem 5 Without using the Montel’s Theorem prove directly that a family
of locally bounded analytic functions are equicontinuous on any compact subset
of the domain of de…nition.
R log z
Problem 6 Evaluate z 2 25 dz; where parametrizes @B(4; 2) once counter-
clockwisely, where log z is the principal branch of logarithm.

Problem 7 Let C be a piecewise di¤ erentiable curve, and let be the


image of under the map z 7! z: Show:

a. If f is continuous on ; then z !
7 f (z) is continuous, and
Z Z
f (z) dz = f (z)dz

b. As an application of (a), show that if is the positively oriented unit circle,


then Z Z
dz
f (z) dz = f (z) 2
jzj=1 jzj=1 z

Problem 8 Let D C be an open, connected subset of C: Further, let f; g


be holomorphic functions, de…ned on D so that f (z) 6= 0 6= g (z) for all z 2
D; and let (an )n 1 be a convergent sequence of numbers an 2 D so that a =
limn!1 an 2 D and an 6= a for all n: Show: If
f 0 (an ) g 0 (an )
=
f (an ) g (an )

for all n; then there is a constant c 2 C so that f (z) = cg (z) for all z 2 D:

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Problem 9 Let f (z) be a holomorphic function, de…ned on the disk jzj < R:
For 0 r < R we de…ne
M (r) = sup jf (z)j
jzj=r

Show:

a. M (r) is a continuous, non-decreasing function of r:


b. If f (z) is not a constant function, then M (r) is strictly increasing.

Problem 10 Let f (z) be an entire function. Furthermore, let n 0 be a


positive integer, and let 0 M; R be two positive constants. Show: If

jf (z)j M jzjn for all jzj R;

then f (z) is a polynomial of degree at most n:

END

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Qualifying Examination: Complex Analysis

10:00am - 1:00pm, June 7, 2014

Instruction: Answer any eight questions from the following ten problems.
Show your work to get credits. Put your name on all answer sheet.

Name: _________________________________

Student ID Number: ________________________

Circle the numbers of the eight problems you choose to be graded:

Problem 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Score __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __

Problem 1 Using contour integration, …nd the value of


Z 2
dt
:
0 cos(t) 2

Problem 2 Let f be an entire function such that jf (z)j < M jzj for all z 2 C
with jzj > R; where M; R and are constants with 0 < < 1. Prove that f is
a constant function.

Problem 3 Show that all the roots of the equation ez = 3z 2 in the unit disc
fz 2 C : jzj < 1g are real.

Problem 4 Let f (z) be an entire function. Suppose in addition that f (z) =


f ( z1 ) for all z 6= 0; prove that f is a constant function.

Problem 5 (a) Determine a Möbius transformation that maps the upper half
of the unit disk onto the …rst quadrant. (b) Find a conformal map that maps the
unit disk in the …rst quadrant one-to-one and onto the upper half plane. Provide
the algebraic expression of the map.

Problem 6 Suppose that F H(G) = fanalytic functions on a region Gg is a


normal family. Denote the derivative of a function f by f 0 : (a) Show that the
set F 0 = ff 0 : f 2 Fg is also a normal family. (b) Is the converse true? Give a
proof if your answer is a¢ rmative. Otherwise, give a counterexample.

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Problem 7 Let G be a relatively compact region, and f : @ ! C is
a continuous function. (a) Describe, without proof, the Perron’s solution for
the Dirichlet problem on with the boundary value f on @ . (b) Let be
the punctured disk: = fz 2 C : 0 < jzj < 1jg : Find an example of a continu-
ous function f (z) on @ such that the Dirichlet problem on is not solvable.
Provide a proof.

Problem 8 Let G be a simply connected region which is not the entire complex
plane. Suppose that z 2 G whenever z 2 G: Let a 2 G \ R and suppose that

f : G ! D = fz 2 C : jzj < 1jg

is a one-to-one analytic function such that f (a) = 0, f 0 (a) > 0 and f (G) =
D. Let G+ = fz 2 G : Im z > 0g : Show that f (G+ ) must lie entirely above or
entirely below the real axis.

Problem 9 A function of two real variables u(x; y) is harmonic if it is twice


continuously di¤ erentiable (i.e. C 2 ), and

@2u @2u
+ 2 = 0:
@x2 @y

Prove that haromonic functions are in…nitely di¤ erentiable (i.e. C 1 ).

Problem 10 Let G be a simply connected region which is not the entire complex
plane. Without applying the Riemann Mapping Theorem, prove directly that
there exists a non-constant analytic mapping f : G ! C such that Cnf (G)
contains a non-empty open set.

END

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