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FALSE: an entire function bounded on the real axis is constant
Statement
False claim: If an entire function is bounded on the real axis, then it is constant.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The complex sine function.
The complex sine and cosine power series have infinite radius of convergence (The exponential definitions of complex sine, cosine, hyperbolic sine, and hyperbolic cosine equal their entire power series).
Complex sine restricts to the published real sine function on the real axis (The exponential formulas, real restrictions, and trigonometric-hyperbolic dictionary over ).
For every real , (Parity and the Pythagorean identity for sine and cosine).
Complex sine and cosine are entire and satisfy and (Complex sine, cosine, hyperbolic sine, and hyperbolic cosine are entire with their standard derivatives).
Refutation
By [L1] and [L4], complex sine is entire; by [L2] and [L3], its restriction to the real axis satisfies for every real .
By [L4], the derivative of sine is cosine, and the series in [L1] gives , so sine has a nonzero derivative and is not constant.
Steps 1.1 and 1.2 give an entire function bounded on the real axis but not constant, refuting the claim; this does not contradict Liouville's theorem: every bounded entire function is constant, whose hypothesis is boundedness on the whole complex plane.
Depends on
- The exponential definitions of complex sine, cosine, hyperbolic sine, and hyperbolic cosine equal their entire power series
- Complex sine, cosine, hyperbolic sine, and hyperbolic cosine are entire with their standard derivatives
- The exponential formulas, real restrictions, and trigonometric-hyperbolic dictionary over $\mathbb C$
- Parity and the Pythagorean identity for sine and cosine
- Liouville's theorem: every bounded entire function is constant
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Sources
- Lars Ahlfors, Complex Analysis, 3rd ed., Ch. 4 §2.3 (standard reference, not scraped)
- E. Stein and R. Shakarchi, Complex Analysis, Ch. 2 §4 (standard reference, not scraped)