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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2010 ii Paper 1 8E Solution by
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The real part of a holomorphic function is real analytic and has a local complexification in its two real coordinates. Define . On real ,and the same identity holds after analytic continuation to complex . Substituting and gives and , henceThe conjugation on the final constant is present in the PDF but was lost in the converted TeX. Without it the formula already fails when and is not real.
Now has the specified real part. Thus the complete family isAny two such holomorphic functions differ by a holomorphic function with zero real part; the Cauchy-Riemann equations make its imaginary part constant on a connected neighborhood.
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