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18.112 Functions of A Complex Variable: Mit Opencourseware

This document contains solutions to problems from the MIT OpenCourseWare course 18.112 Functions of a Complex Variable. The solutions include: 1) Finding the roots of a complex equation. 2) Evaluating a contour integral using two different methods. 3) Evaluating another contour integral involving a singularity inside and outside the contour. 4) Showing that if a function is meromorphic except possibly for a pole at infinity, then it must be a polynomial. 5) Using estimates of derivatives at a point and properties of analytic functions to show a function is a polynomial.

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18.112 Functions of A Complex Variable: Mit Opencourseware

This document contains solutions to problems from the MIT OpenCourseWare course 18.112 Functions of a Complex Variable. The solutions include: 1) Finding the roots of a complex equation. 2) Evaluating a contour integral using two different methods. 3) Evaluating another contour integral involving a singularity inside and outside the contour. 4) Showing that if a function is meromorphic except possibly for a pole at infinity, then it must be a polynomial. 5) Using estimates of derivatives at a point and properties of analytic functions to show a function is a polynomial.

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18.112 Functions of a Complex Variable


Fall 2008

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Solution for 18.112 Mid 1

Problem 1.
Solution: 2nπ
z
3 = 8e−iπ/2 =⇒ z = 2e
−i( 6 + )
π
, 0 ≤ n ≤ 2,

3
√ √
=⇒ z =
2i
or z = 3 − i or z =
− 3 − i.

Problem 2.
Method 1.
2π
dz iei t/2
� �
= dt
|z−1|= 21 (1 − z)3 0 (−eit /2)3
� 2π
−i
= ·8 e−i·2t dt
2 0
−2it �2π
�
e
= −4i �
−2i �0
= 0.

Method 2. Let f (z) ≡ 1. By (24) on Page 120, we get


2! dz
�
′′
0 = f (1) = .
2πi |z−1|= 21 (z − 1)3

Problem 3.
Solution: 1) |z|=1 ez −+2z dz = 0, since 2 ∈
� z
/ {z : |z | < 1}.

e z +z
= 2πi(e2 + 2), since n(γ, 2) = 1. (Theorem 6 on P119.)
�
2) |z|=3 z −2
dz

Problem 4.
Solution: Let
1
g(z) = f ( ), ∀z =
6 0,
z
then g is analytic on C \ {0}, and the singularity at 0 is removable or is pole of order
h.
If the singularity of g at 0 is removable, then lim g(z) exists and is finite, i.e.
z→0
lim f (z) exists and is finite. Thus f is bounded on C. Since f is analytic and
z→∞
bounded in the whole plane, it is a constant.
If 0 is pole of order h, then

g(z) = Bh z −h + Bh−1 z −h+1 + · · · + B1 z −1 + φ(z),

where φ(z) is analytic on C. Since f is continuous (analytic) at 0, lim g(z) exists


z→∞
and is finite. Thus lim φ(z) exists and is finite. So φ(z) is bounded in the whole
z→∞
plane, and thus φ(z) = B0 is constant. So
1
f (z) = g( ) = Bh z h + Bh−1 z h−1 + · · · + B1 z + B0
z
is polynomial.

Problem 5.
Method 1. Take
C : |z | = R, where R > 100.
For any m > n, we have
� �
� m! f (ξ ) dξ
�
(m)
�
|f (0)| = �� �
2πi C ξ m+1 �
�� �
m! �� n−m−1
�
≤ ξ dξ �
2π � C �
m! Rn−m
= −→ 0 as R → ∞.
2π n − m
Thus f (m) (0) = 0 for any m > n. By the Taylor expansion,
f ′ (0) f n (0) n f n+1(0) n+1
f (z) = f (0) + z +···+ z + z +···
1! n! (n + 1)!
f ′ (0) f n (0) n
= f (0) + z +···+ z
1! n!
2
is polynomial.

Method 2. By |f (z)| < |z |n , we know

lim z n+1 f (1/z) = 0,


z→0

i.e. f has a nonessential singularity at ∞. By last problem, f is polynomial.

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