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This document contains 10 mathematical physics assignment questions related to complex analysis and analytic functions. The questions cover topics such as identifying analytic functions, proving properties of analytic functions using Cauchy-Riemann equations, determining derivatives of analytic functions, and finding the regions of absolute convergence for power series.

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PH402 2024 T2

This document contains 10 mathematical physics assignment questions related to complex analysis and analytic functions. The questions cover topics such as identifying analytic functions, proving properties of analytic functions using Cauchy-Riemann equations, determining derivatives of analytic functions, and finding the regions of absolute convergence for power series.

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Mathematical Physics II Department of Physics

Assignment 2 Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati


PH402 4
30/01/2023

1. In the list of functions given below, identify the functions that are analytic functions of z in
some region, and find their region of analyticity:

(a) ix y (b) ei✓ (c) x2 iy 2


(d) x iy (e) x2 y 2 + 2ixy (f ) x2 y 2 2ixy
(g) i tan 1 xy (h) iy + x2 + y 2 (i) [(x + i)2 y 2 ]1/2
(j) x4 + 2ix2 y 2 y4 (k) iex sin y (l) x2 + x + 1 y 2 + iy(2x + 1)
(m) (x(x2 +y
iy)
2) (n) x + 2iy (o) sin x cosh y + i cos x sinh y

2. Prove the following:


(a) Suppose that a function f (z) = u(x, y)+iv(x, y) and its conjugate f¯(z) = u(x, y) iv(x, y)
are both analytic in a domain D. Then f (z) must be a constant throughout D.
(b) Suppose f (z) is analytic in D. Further modulus |f (z)| is constant throughout D. Then
f (z) must be constant throughout D.

3. Show that the Cauchy Riemann conditions in polar form can be written as
@u 1 @v
=
@r r @✓
@u @v
= r ,
@✓ @r
where z = r exp(i✓) and ! = f (z) = u(r, ✓) + iv(r, ✓).

4. Just in the case of Cartesian form of C-R conditions, one can state the following theorem related
to polar form of the C-R conditions:
Let the function f (z) = u(r, ✓) + iv(r, ✓) be defined throughout some " neighbourhood of a non-
zero point z0 = r0 exp(i✓0 ), and suppose that (a) the first partial derivatives of the functions
u and v with respect to r and ✓ exists everywhere in the neighbourhood and (b) those partial
derivatives are continuous at (r0 , ✓0 ) and satisfy the polar form of the C-R equations given
above in question 3 at (r0 , ✓0 ). Then f 0 (z0 ) exists its value being f 0 (z0 ) = e i✓ ( @u @v
@r + i @r ), where
the right hand side is to be evaluated at (r0 , ✓0 ).
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(a) Evaluate f 0 (z) for the function f (z) = z for z 6= 0 using the above theorem.
(b) Use the above theorem to show that any branch of the square root function z 1/2 , i.e.
p
f (z) = rei✓/2 , (r > 0, ↵ < ✓ < ↵ + 2⇡)

has a derivative everywhere in its domain of definition.

5. Show that u = e x (x sin y y cos y) is harmonic. Find v upto an additive constant such that
f (z) = u + iv is analytic. Write explicitly the form of f (z) for this problem.

6. Prove the equivalence of the operators:


Mathematical Physics II PH402 - Page 2 of 2 30/01/2023

@ @ @
(a) @x ⌘ @z +
@ z̄ ,
@ @ @
(b) @y ⌘ i( @z @ z̄ ),
@ @
(c) r = @x + i @y ⌘ 2 @@z̄
@ @ @
(d) r̄ = @x i @y ⌘ 2 @z

7. Recall that if z = x + iy, then


z + z̄ z z̄
x= , and, y = .
2 2i
By formally applying the chain rule in calculus to a function F (x, y) of two real variables, derive
the expression for ✓ ◆
@F 1 @F @F
= +i .
@ z̄ 2 @x @y
Now define the operator ✓ ◆
@ 1 @ @
= +i ,
@ z̄ 2 @x @y
suggested by the first part of this problem, to show that if the first order partial derivative of
the real and imaginary components of a function f (z) = u(x, y) + iv(x, y) satisfy the Cauchy-
Riemann equations, then
✓ ◆ ✓ ◆
@f 1 @u @v @v @u
= +i + = 0.
@ z̄ 2 @x @y @x @y

Thus derive the complex form @f /@ z̄ = 0 of the C-R equations.

8. In its region of analyticity, an analytic function f (z) = u + iv may also be thought of as a map
from a region of the complex plane to another region of the complex plane.
(a) Show that the Jacobian determinant of the transformation (x, y) 7! (u, v) is just |f 0 (z)|2 ,
where f 0 (z) denotes the derivative of f (z).
(b) Show that r2 (|f (z)|2 ) = 4|f 0 (z)|2 .

9. Applications of Cauchy-Riemann Equations:


(a) Show that the function f (z) = |z|2 is di↵erentiable only at z = 0.
(b) Prove that the function given by z 7! z̄ on C is not di↵erentiable at any point in C.
(c) Find the points where the following function f is di↵erentiable and hence deduce that it
is nowhere analytic: f = u + iv, where u(x, y) = x2 y 2 , v(x, y) = 2x2 y 2 .
(d) If f is analytic in a domain D ✓ C and if |f | is constant in D, show that f is constant.
p
(e) Show that the function f (z) = |xy| is not analytic at the origin, although it satisfies the
Cauchy-Riemann equations at that point.

10. The ratio test gives a quick way of deducing the region of convergence of a large number of
series. Find the region of absolute convergence of each of the following power series:
P1 zn P1 zn P1 (ln ln n)z n
(a) n=0 (n+1)3 (b) n=1 ln(n+1) (c) n=2 ln n
P P zn P1 zn
(d) 1 7 n
n=0 n z (e) 1 n=0 (n+1)n (f ) n=0 (n!) 1/6

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