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Re: analytical function question

Subject: Re: analytical function question
From: Tom Smith
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 18:46:09 +0100
Newsgroups: sci.math
eugene wrote:
It is going to be a silly question, but i'm a bit unsure:

If we know that the function f(z) is analytical in D = {z: |z|<1} is it true that it is analytical in the closure of D^ = {z: |z|<=1} ?


No! Consider f : z |-> 1/(1-z). This is analytic on D, with power series f(z) = 1 + z + z^2 + z^3 + ...; but it has a pole at z = 1 and so can't possibly be analytic on D^.

As far as i understand if f iz analytical at every point z from D, then it is 
analytical in some neighborhood of z,

That's true.

 and these neighborhoods cover the unit circle D^.

That isn't. They certainly cover D, the open unit disc you defined above; but they're all subsets of D; none of them extend onto C = D^\D.


HTH,

Tom

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