Complex Analysis, Autumn 2009

Stanford University, Department of Mathematics course 215A HW 1: (due by October 1, 3:30pm, either in class or in Jose Pereas mailbox)

Please write-up your own solutions to problems in an organized and neat fashion. If collaborating in the problem solving process please write the names of the people with whom you collaborated next to each solution.

1. Let p(z ) be a polynomial of degree n 1 and let z0 C. Show that there is a polynomial h(z ) of degree n 1 such that p(z ) = (z z0 )h(z ) + p(z0 ). This shows that the following two statements are equivalent: (i) every complex polynomial of degree n can be factored as a product of n linear terms, and (ii) every complex polynomial has a zero.
1+iz 1 (as a multivalued function). Determine a principal branch for this 2. Show that tan1 z = 2 i log 1iz function that maps one-to-one and onto the vertical strip {/2 < Rew < /2}.

3. Show that f (z ) = z is nowhere analytic. 4. Prove the following variant of Goursats theorem: If f is a continuous complex-valued function on a domain D such that f exists on D \ C where C is a smooth curve then f is analytic. 5. Show harmonic conjugates are unique, up to a constant. 6. Prove the existence of an analytic function w = f (z ) satisfying Argw = Argz + |z | sin(Argz ). 7. Derive the Cauchy-Riemann equations and Laplaces equation in polar coordinates. 8. Find all analytic functions f such that Ref or Imf or Argf or |f | are constant along any vertical line x =const. What if we require the same for all horizontal lines y = const? 9. As in the previous problem, but now nd all f such that one of Ref, Imf, Argf or |f | is constant along any circle x2 + y 2 = const.
1 1 10. Map the half-strip 2 Rez 2 , Imz 0 onto the unit disc conformally.

11. Let p be a polynomial of degree n. Prove the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra by studying the integral dz . zp(z )

| z | =r