Solution

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Using the complex cosine identity,
we find
Its real part is exactly the prescribed function. Thus a harmonic conjugate is , and the general answer is
To check the only freedom, two analytic functions with this real part differ by a function with zero real part. The Cauchy-Riemann equations then force both partial derivatives of its imaginary part to vanish, so it is constant on the connected domain. No normalization was supplied to fix .

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