[Math] Showing that $a$ is a removable singularity if $\mathrm{Im}(f(z))$ is bounded from above

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Problem: Suppose $f$ is analytic on the domain $\Omega$ except at the isolated
singularity $a \in \Omega$. Show that $a$ is a removable singularity
if $\mathrm{Im}(f(z))$ is bounded from above.

Attempt:

  1. We have that $a$ is a removable singularity if and only if we have that

    $$
    \lim_{z\rightarrow a} (z-a)f(z) =0
    $$

  2. Since $\mathrm{Im}(f(z))$ is bounded from above, there exists some $M \in \mathbb{R}_{\ge 0}$ s.t. $\mathrm{Im}(f(z)) \le M$ for all $z \in \Omega$.

  3. If we could show

    $$
    \mathrm{Im}(f(z)) \le M \implies |f(z)| \le M_1 \text{ for some } M_1 \in \mathbb{R}_{\ge 0}
    $$

    then we would immediately have (1) since

    $$
    \lim_{z \rightarrow a}|(z-a)f(z)| \le \lim_{z \rightarrow a}|(z-a)|M_1 = 0
    $$

Question: Is this the right approach?

Best Answer

Update:

Assume that ${\rm Im}\bigl(f(z)\bigr)<M$ for some $M>0$ and all $z\in\dot\Omega:=\Omega\setminus\{a\}$. The Moebius transform $$w\mapsto \zeta:={iMw\over 2iM-w}$$ maps the half plane ${\rm Im}(w)<M$ onto the interior of the disc $|\zeta|<M$. It follows that the function $$g(z):={iM f(z)\over 2iM-f(z)}$$ satisfies $$|g(z)|<M\qquad\forall z\in\dot\Omega\ .$$ Therefore $g$ has a removable singularity at $a$ and is in fact analytic in all of $\Omega$. By the maximum principle it follows that $|g(a)|<M$ as well, whence $$f(z)={2iM g(z)\over iM+g(z)}$$ is analytic in all of $\Omega$.

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