Paper 3, Section I, B

Complex Methods
Part IB, 2014

Find the most general cubic form

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

which satisfies Laplace's equation, where a,b,ca, b, c and dd are all real. Hence find an analytic function f(z)=f(x+iy)f(z)=f(x+i y) which has such a uu as its real part.