Harmonicity under holomorphic composition

ID: harmonicity-under-holomorphic-composition

If is a holomorphic function between planar open sets and is a harmonic function, then is harmonic. In fact the chain rule and the Cauchy-Riemann equations, with , give
Here the two gradients are orthogonal and have equal length, while are harmonic. The formula holds even where . A biholomorphism therefore induces inverse correspondences between harmonic functions by function composition with it and its inverse.

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