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MATH3401: Complex Analysis 06/03/14

Assignment Number 1

Problem 1 (3 points) Graph the following regions in the complex plane:

a) {z : (Re z)2 ≥ (Im z)};
b) {z : − π/4 < Arg z ≤ π};
c) {z : |z + 4 − 3i| < 5}.

Problem 2 (3 points) Find all complex solutions of the following equations:

a) z = z;
b) z + z = 0;
c) z = 4/z.

Problem 3 (3 points) Express the following in the form x + iy, with x, y ∈ R:

i
a) ;
(1 − i)(2 + i)
b) all the 3rd roots of 8i;
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i+1
c) √ .
2
√ √ √
Problem 4 (4 √ points) The set Q adjoin 2 is defined by Q( 2) = {p + q 2 : p, q ∈ Q}.
Show that Q( 2) is a field.
Hint 1: remember that Q and R are fields: hence you will get many, indeed, most of the
properties almost free.
Hint 2: make sure you check closure.

Problem 5 (4 points) Let T be a mapping from C to C. A fixed point of T is a point z

satisfying T (z) = z.
a) Show: any Möbius transformation, apart from the identity, can have at most 2 fixed
points in C. (The identity is the transformation z &→ z).
b) Give examples of Möbius transformations having (i) 2; (ii) 1 and (iii) no fixed points
in C.

Problem 6 (3 points) Write one or at most two paragraphs on the Joukowski transfor-
mation. You should also include one relevant picture. Neither your paragraphs nor your
picture should be from Wikipedia.
(Extra style points if the answer is in verse. Disclaimer: style points are not exchangeable
for actual assignment points.)

Due: 11:50AM, Wednesday, 19/03/2014.

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MATH3401: Complex Analysis 19/03/2014

Assignment Number 2

Problem 1 (3 points) Determine the Möbius transformation mapping 2 to 1, i to itself,

and −2 to −1.

Problem 2 (3 points) For z ∈ C, show:

a) sin z = sin z;
b) cos z = cos z;
c) tan z = tan z.

Problem 3 (4 points) Find all solutions z ∈ C of of the following (express your answers
in the form x + iy):
a) z = log(−4); b) z i = i.

Problem 4 (5 points) ! "

−i z+i
a) Prove that cot z =
−1
log , and note any restrictions on your domain.
2 z−i
b) Find all solutions z ∈ C of cot z = 1 (express them in the form x + iy).

Problem 5 (5 points) Let Ω1 and Ω2 be nonempty, open sets in C.

a) Show that the set Ω1 ∪ Ω2 is open.
b) If instead Ω2 is nonempty and closed, could Ω1 ∪ Ω2 still be open? Need it be open?
Give proofs or (counter-)examples.

Due: 11:50AM, Wednesday, 02/04/2014.

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MATH3401: Complex Analysis 03/04/2014

Assignment Number 3

Problem 1 (6 points) Show the following limits:

2z 3
a) lim 3 = 2;
z→∞ z − 1337z

z3
b) lim = ∞;
z→∞ z 2 + 1337z

(az + b)2 a2
c) lim = if ad − bc #= 0 and c #= 0.
z→∞ (cz + d)2 c2

Problem 2 (3 points) Show that lim z/z does not exist. (Hint: consider what happens
z→0
to the function at points of the form x + 0i for x → 0, x #= 0, and then at points of the
form 0 + yi for y → 0, y #= 0.)

Problem 3 (3 points) Show that the following functions are defined on all of C, but are
nowhere analytic (here z = x + iy):
a) z %→ 2xy + i(x2 − y 2 ); b) z %→ sin z.

Problem 4 (4 points) Show where the function z %→ x4 + i(1 − y)4 is:

a) analytic;
b) differentiable
(here z = x + iy).

Problem 5 (4 points) Verify that the following functions are analytic on their domain
of definition, and state the derivative. (here z = x + iy = reiθ ):
a) z %→ ln r + iθ, domain {z : r > 0, 0 < θ < 2π};
4z + 1
b) z %→ 3 , domain C \ {0, i, −i}.
z +z
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MATH3401: Complex Analysis 18/04/2014

Assignment Number 4

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Problem 1 (4 points) Evaluate the integral Im z dz for the following contours C from
C
−2 to 2:
a) The line segments from −2 to −2 − i to 2 − i to 2 (sketch!);
b) the lower half of the circle with radius 2, centre 0;
c) the upper half of the circle with radius 2, centre 0.
d) What conclusions (if any) can you draw about the function z "→ Im z from this?

Problem 2 (4 points) Evaluate the following integrals, justifying your procedures:

2 dz
!
a) , where C is the circle with radius 1/2, centre 1, positively oriented;
!C "z2 − 1 #
1
b) ez − dz, where C is the lower half of the circle with radius 1, centre 0, nega-
C z
tively
! i oriented;
2
c) zez dz;
!0 2πi
d) cosh z dz .
πi

Problem 3 (3 points) Let D be the circular annulus 7 < |z| < 9, and let C be any simple
closed contour inside D. Show that there holds:
dz
!
= 0.
C z +4
2

Problem 4 (3 points)
(a) Let CR be the circle with radius R, centre 0, positively oriented. Show

z 2 + 8z + 42
!
lim dz = 0.
R→∞ C (z 2 + 4)(z 2 − 4z + 5)
R

(b) Use the result of (a) to show

z 2 + 8z + 42
!
dz = 0,
C (z 2 + 4)(z 2 − 4z + 5)

where C is the circle with radius 5, centre 2, positively oriented.

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Problem 5 (3 points) Evaluate

sin z
!
dz,
C (z + 1)7
where C is the circle of radius 6, centre 0, positively oriented.

Problem 6 (3 points)
(a) Define precisely what it means for a curve in C to be rectifiable.
(b) Give an example of a non-rectifiable curve in C. You don’t have to prove it is non-
rectifiable.
Note: you will need to provide at least one reference, properly cited. This is not allowed
to be from wikipedia.

Due: 11:50AM, Wednesday, 07/05/2014

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MATH3401: Complex Analysis 09/05/2014

Assignment Number 5, part the first

Problem 1 (5 points)
(a) Suppose that U solves a Neumann problem for Laplace’s equation on a domain Ω.
Show that U + c also solves this problem for any c ∈ R.
(b) Does the same result hold for the corresponding Dirichlet problem?

Problem 2 (5 points)
Let Λ be the domain {w | 0 < Im w < π}. Denote the two components of the boundary
of Λ by Γ1 = {w | Im w = 0} and Γ2 = {w | Im w = π}.
(a) Let C be an arbitrary real constant. Verify that the function T != Im ( wπ +! C cosh w)
is harmonic on Λ, and satisfies the Dirichlet boundary conditions T !Γ1 = 0, T !Γ2 = 1.
(b) For what values (if any) of C is T a bounded function on Λ (i.e. for what values of
C does there exist an M > 0 such that |T (w)| ≤ M for all w ∈ Λ?)

Due: 11:50AM, Wednesday, 21/05/2014

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MATH3401: Complex Analysis 09/05/2014

Assignment Number 5, part the second

Problem 1 (10 points)

Consider the mapping f = (2/π) Log, where Log is the branch of the logarithm with
branch cut on the negative imaginary axis. You will investigate some analytic and nu-
merical properties of this mapping with MATLAB.

(a) Define the domain Ω = {z : −1 < Re z < 1, 0 < Im z < 2}. What is f (Ω)? Show
that f is conformal on Ω.

(b) Set up a grid as follows. Firstly, by using meshgrid and linspace, partition Ω into
a grid with grid-lines at half-integer multiples. Next, include a parameter N to control
how many points make up each gridline. Initially, set this to N = 10.

(c) By using subplot and plot you should now construct a diagram with two plots. The
left-hand plot should show the gridlines, and the right-had plot should show the image
of these lines under the given mapping. The gridlines with constant real part and their
image under f should be solid blue, and the gridlines with constant imaginary part and
their image under f should be dashed red. See linespec in the Matlab documentation
for more information. Your plots and axes should be labelled, and there should be ap-
propriate tick marks. As a guide, see Figure 1 for the output when f is replaced by a
particular Möbius transformation.

(d) In part (c), you should have a vertical line segment with Re z ≈ −1.4 in the right-hand
plot.

Explain where this line segment comes from. What happens if you set N = 11? N = 12?

(e) Explain what is going on here.

(f) (2 bonus points) Repeat this for a substantially different function (i.e., not a branch
of the logarithm, not a Möbius transformation), on a different domain if necessary.

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z f(z)
2 2

Im

Im
1 1

0 0
−1 0 1 −1 0 1
Re Re

Figure 1: Sample solution to problem 1 (b)-(c) for f (z) = −2

z+i

Due: 11:50AM, Wednesday, 04/06/2014

Particular rules for this assignment:
You may work in groups of up to 3, and submit together in that group.
By putting your name on submitted work, you are indicating that you made a significant
contribution to the final outcome: i.e., no passengers.
You are free to carry out this exercise in a different programming language from MATLAB
if you so choose.

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MATH3401: Complex Analysis 22/5/2014

Assignment Number 6

Problem 1 (3 points)
1
Find a power-series expansion of the function f (z) = about the point 4i, and cal-
3−z
culate the radius of convergence.

Problem 2 (3 points)
Find a Laurent-series expansion of the function f (z) = z −1 sinh(z −1 ) about the point 0,
and classify the singularity at 0.

Problem 3 (8 points) For each of the following functions, find and classify all singulari-
ties, and calculate the residue at each singularity:
(a) 1 − cos z (b) z3 (c) 2 1 (d)
exp z
2
z (1 + z)3 (z + 1)(z − 1)2 (1 − z)4

Problem 4 (2 points) Consider the function

sin z
f (z) = .
cos(z 3 ) − 1

Classify the singularity at z = 0 and calculate the residue.

Problem 5 (4 points)
(a) Prove that the coefficients cn in the expansion

1 ! ∞
= cn z n
1 − z − z2 n=0

satisfy the recurrence relation c0 = c1 = 1, cn = cn−1 + cn−2 for n ≥ 2.

(b) What is the radius of convergence of the series in (a)?
(c) What would be a good name for the cn ’s?

Due: 4:50PM, Thursday, 5/6/2014

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