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This document is a tutorial sheet for the course "Linear Algebra, Numerical and Complex Analysis" covering topics in complex analysis including: - Limits of complex functions - Testing continuity and differentiability of complex functions - Cauchy-Riemann equations - Analytic functions - Harmonic functions - Conditions for a complex function to be constant

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Tutorial Sheet - 9

This document is a tutorial sheet for the course "Linear Algebra, Numerical and Complex Analysis" covering topics in complex analysis including: - Limits of complex functions - Testing continuity and differentiability of complex functions - Cauchy-Riemann equations - Analytic functions - Harmonic functions - Conditions for a complex function to be constant

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Linear Algebra, Numeircal and Complex Analysis (MA11004)

Department of Mathematics
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Tutorial Sheet 9, Spring 2023

Topics: Complex Analysis: Limits, Continuity, Differentiability, Cauchy-Riemann equations,


Analytic functions.

1. Find the following limits (if exist):


z̄
(a) lim .
z
z→0
Im(z)
(b) lim .
z→0 |z|
(c) lim (z 2 − 5z + 10).
z→1+i
 
1 2
(d) lim 1 + iz .
z→0
1 − ey
2. Test the continuity of the following functions at z = 0 :
( Re(z) Im(z)
|z|2
if z 6= 0,
(a) f (z) =
0 if z = 0.
( Re(z)
|z| if z 6= 0,
(b) f (z) =
0 if z = 0.
2
(
Im(z )
z2
if z 6= 0,
(c) f (z) =
0 if z = 0.

3. Test the differentiability of the following functions at z = 0 :

(a) f (z) = |z|.


(b) f (z) = Re(z).
(c) f (z) = |z|2 .

4. Let (
z̄ 3
z2
if z 6= 0,
f (z) =
0 if z = 0.
Show that

(a) f (z) is continuous everywhere on C.


(b) The complex derivative f 0 (0) does not exist.

5. Show that the function f (z) = | Re(z) Im(z)|1/2 satisfies the Cauchy-Riemann equations
at z = 0, but f 0 (0) does not exist.

6. Show that following functions are harmonic and find their harmonic conjugates:

1
(a) u(x, y) = 4xy − x3 + 3xy 2 .
(b) u(x, y) = e−x (x sin y − y cos y).
(c) u(x, y) = x3 − 3xy 2 .
(d) u(r, θ) = r2 sin 2θ.

7. Using Cauchy-Riemann equations, show that f (z) = (1 + 2i)x2 y 2 is nowhere analytic.

8. Let
z̄ 2
(
|z| if z 6= 0,
f (z) =
0 if z = 0.
Show that f (z) is continuous everywhere, but nowhere analytic on C.

9. Let f (z) = u + iv be analytic in a domain D. Prove that f is constant in D if any one of


the followings hold:

(a) f 0 (z) vanishes in D.


(b) Re f (z) = u = constant.
(c) Im f (z) = v = constant.
(d) |f (z)| = constant (non zero).

10. Let f (z) = u + iv be an analytic function in a domain D such that v = u2 . Show that
f (z) is constant.

11. Show that there exist no analytic function f such that Re f (z) = y 2 − 2x.

12. Prove the following statements:

(a) A real-valued function of a complex variable either has derivative zero or the deriva-
tive does not exist.
(b) If f (z) is continuous at z = z0 , then |f (z)| is also continuous at z = z0 .
(c) If f (z) satisfies the Cauchy-Riemann equations at z = z0 , then (f (z))n also satisfies
the Cauchy-Riemann equations at z = z0 .
(d) If u and v are harmonic conjugates to each other in some domain D, then u and v
must be constant there.
(e) A necessary condition
  for a complex-valued function f (z) = u+iv to be differentiable
∂f
at z = z0 is that = 0.
∂ z̄ at z=z0

13. Show that the function f (z) = (z̄ + 1)3 − 3z̄ is nowhere analytic.

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