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Assignment 4: Due October 19, 2016: LNZ Z

This document outlines 15 mathematical problems for Assignment 4 that is due on October 19, 2016. The problems cover a range of topics including: showing various mathematical identities; evaluating integrals using contours and residues; analyzing singularities; developing Laurent series; and evaluating definite integrals involving trigonometric and hyperbolic functions. Students are asked to show work and justify answers for full credit on the assignment.

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Assignment 4: Due October 19, 2016: LNZ Z

This document outlines 15 mathematical problems for Assignment 4 that is due on October 19, 2016. The problems cover a range of topics including: showing various mathematical identities; evaluating integrals using contours and residues; analyzing singularities; developing Laurent series; and evaluating definite integrals involving trigonometric and hyperbolic functions. Students are asked to show work and justify answers for full credit on the assignment.

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Assignment 4: Due October 19, 2016

Mathematical Methods (Autumn 2016)

1. (a) Show that eln z is always equal to z.


(b) Show that ln ez does not always equal to z.

2. Show that (
2πi n = −1,
I
(z − z0 )n dz =
C 0 n=6 −1,
where n is an integer and the contour C encircles the point z = z0 in counterclockwise sense.

3. Evaluate I
dz
,
C z2−1
where C is the circle |z| = 2.

4. If f (z) is analytic and bounded [|f (z)| ≤ M, a constant] for all z, show that f (z) must be a
constant. (Liouville’s theorem)

5. Derive the binomial expansion


∞  
m m(m − 1) X m n
(1 + z) = 1 + mz + z + ... = z
2 n=0
n

for any real number m. Note that the expansion is convergent for |z| < 1.

6. Develop the first three non-zero terms of the Laurent expansion of

f (z) = (ez − 1)−1

about the origin.

7. Prove that the Laurent expansion of a given function about a given point is unique; that is, if
∞
X ∞
X
n
f (z) = an (z − z0 ) = bn (z − z0 )n ,
n=−N n=−N

show that an = bn for all n.

8. How do circles centered on the origin in the z − plane transform for

(a) w1 (z) = z + z1 ,
(b) w2 (z) = z − z1 ,
for z 6= 0? What happens when |z| → 1?

9. In the transformation
a−w
ez =
,
a+w
how do the coordinate lines in the z − plane transform? What coordinate system have you
constructed?

10. Locate the singularities and evaluate the residues of each of the following functions

(a) z −n (ez − 1)−1 , z 6= 0,

1
(b) (z 2 ez ) /(1 + e2z ) .

11. The statement that the integral halfway around a singular point is equal to one half the integral
all the way around was limited to simple poles. Show by a specific example, that
Z I
1
f (z)dz = f (z)dz
Semicircle 2 Circle
does not necessarily hold if the integral encircles a pole of higher order.
(Hint - Try f (z) = z −2 .)

12. Evaluate Z 2π
dθ
.
0 a ± b cos θ

13. Show that (a > 0)

(a) Z ∞
cos x π
2 2
dx = e−a .
−∞ x +a a
How is the right side modified if cos x is replaced by cos kx?
(b) Z ∞
sin x
dx = πe−a .
−∞ x2 +a 2

How is the right side modified if sin x is replaced by sin kx?

14. Show that ∞


x−a
Z
π
dx = ,
0 x+1 sin aπ
where 0 < a < 1.

15. Show that Z ∞


dx π
2 = 3, a > 0.
0 (x2 + a2 ) 4a

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