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FALSE: real differentiability as a map R2R2 implies complex differentiability; conjugation is the counterexample

Statement

False claim: if a map f:CC, regarded as a map R2R2, is real totally differentiable at a point, then it is complex differentiable there.

Facts & Assumptions

Given: The conjugation map f(z)=zˉ.

[L1]

Under the real-coordinate identification Φ(a+bi)=(a,b) (C is the real coordinate plane, with coordinate arithmetic), x+iy corresponds to (x,y); conjugation is x+iy=xiy (Real and imaginary parts, complex conjugation, and modulus), so it corresponds to (x,y)(x,y).

[L2]

Complex differentiability is equivalent to real total differentiability together with the Cauchy–Riemann equations ux=vy and uy=vx (Complex differentiability is equivalent to real total differentiability together with a complex-linear derivative, with zˉf=0, or with the Cauchy–Riemann equations).

Refutation

technique · direct counterexample
1.1

By [L1], f is the real-linear map (x,y)(x,y). Its increment is exactly its linear action, so it is real totally differentiable everywhere with derivative matrix diag(1,1).

L1algebra
1.2

Directly, for nonzero real t the quotient (z+tzˉ)/t is 1, whereas the quotient for the increment it is (z+itzˉ)/(it)=1. Thus the complex difference quotient has incompatible directional limits.

givenalgebra
2.1

Its components u=x and v=y have ux=1 and vy=1, so the first Cauchy–Riemann equation fails at every point. By [L2], f is nowhere complex differentiable.

step 1.1L2
3.1

The same map is real totally differentiable everywhere by step 1.1 and complex differentiable nowhere by steps 1.2 and 2.1, so it refutes the claim.

step 1.1step 2.1step 1.2

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