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Complex Spring 2017

The document is a Ph.D. comprehensive examination in Complex Analysis from January 2017, consisting of two parts. Part I requires solving three problems related to properties of analytic functions, harmonic functions, and normal families of functions. Part II includes two problems focused on conformal mappings and fixed points of analytic functions.

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Complex Spring 2017

The document is a Ph.D. comprehensive examination in Complex Analysis from January 2017, consisting of two parts. Part I requires solving three problems related to properties of analytic functions, harmonic functions, and normal families of functions. Part II includes two problems focused on conformal mappings and fixed points of analytic functions.

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Ph.D.

Comprehensive Examination
Complex Analysis
January 2017

Part I. Do three of these problems.

I.1 Let D := {z ∈ C : |z| < 1} be the open unit disc in C and consider f : D −→ C, a
continuous function which is analytic in D and satisfies
|f (z)| = 1 ∀ z ∈ ∂D.
Show that if f has no zeros in D then f is constant on D. Here, as usually D denotes the
closure of the set D in C, and ∂D denotes the topological boundary of D.
Z ∞
1
I.2 Evaluate √ dx.
0 (x + 3) x

I.3 Let u : R2 −→ R be a positive harmonic function. Show that u is constant.

I.4 Show that the family of all analytic maps f : D −→ {z ∈ C : Re(z) > 0} such that
|f (0)| ≤ 1 is normal. That is, show that every sequence of functions in the family has a
subsequence that converges uniformly on compact subsets. Here D is the open unit disc in
C.

Part II. Do two of these problems.

II.1 Find a conformal map from the open semi-disc G := {z ∈ C : |z| < 1, Im(z) > 0}
onto the half-plane H := {z ∈ C : Im(z) > 0}, where as usually, Im denotes imaginary part.

II.2 Let D ⊂ C be the open unit disc and assume that f : D −→ D is an analytic function
which is not the identity. Show that f can have, at most, one fixed point.

II.3 Let f be an entire function with the property that for each w ∈ C, the equation
f (z) = w has precisely two solutions counted with multiplicity. Prove that f is a polynomial
of degree two.

Justify your answers thoroughly. For any theorem that you wish to cite, you should either give its name or
a statement of the theorem.

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