closure properties of Cauchy-Riemann equations
The set of solutions of the Cauchy-Riemann equations is closed undera surprisingly large number of operations. For convenience, letus introduce the notational conventions that and are complexfunctions with and. Let and denoteopen subsets of the complex plane
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Theorem 1.
If andsatisfy the Cauchy-Riemann equations, so does . Furthermore, if , then satisfies the Cauchy-Riemann equations.
Proof.
This is an immediate consequence of the linearity of derivatives.∎
Theorem 2.
If and satisfy theCauchy-Riemann equations, so does .
Proof.
Letting and denote the real and imaginary parts of respectively, we have
and
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Theorem 3.
If and satisfy theCauchy-Riemann equations, so does .
Proof.
Letting and denote the real and imaginary parts of respectively, we have
and
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Theorem 4.
If satisfies the Cauchy-Riemann equations,and has non-vanishing Jacobian, then also satisfies the Cauchy-Riemann equations.
Proof.
Let us denote the real and imaginary parts of as and , respectively.Then, by definition of inverse function, we have
Taking derivatives,
By the Cauchy-Riemann equations, and . Using these relations to re-express thederivatives of as derivatives of , then subtracting thefourth equation form the first equation and adding the second andthird equations, we obtain
With a little algebraic manipulation, we may conclude
Note that, by the Cauchy-Riemann equations, the Jacobian of equals the common prefactor of these equations:
Hence, by assumptions, this quantity differs from zero and we maycancel it to obtain the Cauchy-Riemann equations for .∎