Log modulus has no global harmonic conjugate on the punctured plane

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The function is harmonic on the punctured complex plane, but it is not globally the real part of a holomorphic function there. Such a function would have derivative , whose integral around the unit circle is , whereas the integral of a derivative around a closed curve is zero.

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