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FALSE: every continuous complex-valued function on a convex domain has a primitive
Statement
False claim: Every continuous function on a convex complex domain has a primitive.
On , the continuous function is a counterexample.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The whole complex plane , the function , and the positively oriented unit circle .
Complex conjugation preserves differences and modulus, and (Conjugation is an involutive real-field automorphism, , and modulus is definite, multiplicative, and subadditive).
The whole Euclidean plane is convex, since every segment between two of its points remains in the plane (A convex subset of contains every line segment between two of its points).
The integral of around the positively oriented unit circle is (On a positively oriented circle about a, the integral of (z-a)^m is zero for every integer m except -1, and is 2 pi i for m=-1).
A primitive of is holomorphic and satisfies (A primitive of a complex function on an open set).
If is holomorphic, is continuous, and is closed and rectifiable, then (The integral of a continuous complex derivative over every closed rectifiable contour is zero).
The Euclidean plane is connected ( is polygonally connected, connected, locally path-connected and locally connected).
A complex domain is a nonempty connected open subset of (A complex domain is a nonempty connected open subset of ).
Refutation
By [L1], , so is continuous; by [L2], its domain is convex. The complex plane is nonempty and open, and it is connected under its Euclidean identification by [L6], so [L7] makes it a complex domain.
On the unit circle, , so and [L3] gives .
Suppose, for contradiction, that has a primitive on .
By [L4], is holomorphic and ; step 1.1 makes this derivative continuous, and the unit circle is closed and rectifiable, so [L5] gives , contradicting step 1.2. Hence no primitive exists and the claim is false.
Depends on
- A convex subset of $\mathbb{R}^m$ contains every line segment between two of its points
- Conjugation is an involutive real-field automorphism, $z\overline z=|z|^2$, and modulus is definite, multiplicative, and subadditive
- On a positively oriented circle about a, the integral of (z-a)^m is zero for every integer m except -1, and is 2 pi i for m=-1
- The integral of a continuous complex derivative over every closed rectifiable contour is zero
- A primitive of a complex function on an open set
- $\mathbb{R}^n$ is polygonally connected, connected, locally path-connected and locally connected
- A complex domain is a nonempty connected open subset of $\mathbb C$
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Sources
- Richard Howell and John Mathews, Complex Analysis, Example 6.2.16 (standard reference, not scraped)