Paper 3, Section I, A

Complex Methods
Part IB, 2010

(a) Prove that the real and imaginary parts of a complex differentiable function are harmonic.

(b) Find the most general harmonic polynomial of the form

u(x,y)=ax3+bx2y+cxy2+dy3u(x, y)=a x^{3}+b x^{2} y+c x y^{2}+d y^{3}

where a,b,c,d,xa, b, c, d, x and yy are real.

(c) Write down a complex analytic function of z=x+iyz=x+i y of which u(x,y)u(x, y) is the real part.