home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!caen!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!not-for-mail
- From: edgar@function.mps.ohio-state.edu (Gerald Edgar)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: help me take a derivative of this complex function
- Date: 17 Nov 1992 14:20:07 -0500
- Organization: The Ohio State University, Dept. of Math.
- Lines: 16
- Distribution: usa
- Message-ID: <1ebgl7INN84c@function.mps.ohio-state.edu>
- References: <1992Nov17.124151.17533@husc3.harvard.edu> <17NOV199214120639@mary.fordham.edu>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: function.mps.ohio-state.edu
-
- f(x+i*y) = y + i*x.
-
- >Since the function f(z) = u(x,y) + iv(x,y) (where z=x+iy)
- >does NOT satisfy the second Cauchy-Riemann equation, it is not differentiable
- >(as a complex function). So f'(z) does not exist.
-
- Do you need the derivative (which does not exist) or the absolute value
- of the derivative (to test for behavior of the dynamical system)?
- The function in question preserves distances,
- |f(z1)-f(z2)| = |z1-z2|, so use 1 for the "absolute value of the derivative".
-
- --
- Gerald A. Edgar Internet: edgar@mps.ohio-state.edu
- Department of Mathematics Bitnet: EDGAR@OHSTPY
- The Ohio State University telephone: 614-292-0395 (Office)
- Columbus, OH 43210 -292-4975 (Math. Dept.) -292-1479 (Dept. Fax)
-