On singularity of limit holomorphic function

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Let $P\in \mathbb C$ and $f_n : D(P,r)\setminus \{P\} \to \mathbb C$ be a sequence of holomorphic functions such that there is a holomorphic function $f: D(P,r)\setminus \{P\} \to \mathbb C$ such that for every compact subset $A$ of $D(P,r)\setminus \{P\} $ , $\{f_n\}$ converges uniformly on $A$ to $f$.

If $P$ is a removable singularity for every $f_n$, then is $P$ a removable singularity for $f$ also ?

Let $\hat f_n$ be the extension of each $f_n$. By Cauchy Integral formula, I can see that $\lim_{n \to \infty} \hat f_n (P)$ exists. So a natural way to extend $f$ at $P$ would be to assign the value of this limit. But then I'm not sure whether the resulting function is holomorphic or not … if the $\hat f_n$ s would converge uniformly on compact sets in $D(P, r)$ to this extended $f$, we would be done, but I'm not sure whether that is true or not.

Please help.

Best Answer

Let $\gamma: [0, 2 \pi] \to \Bbb C$ be the circle $\gamma(t) = P + \rho e^{it}$ for some $\rho \in (0, r)$. Cauchy's integral formula holds for every extension $\hat f_n$ of $f_n$, therefore $$ f_n(z) = \hat f_n(z) = \frac{1}{2 \pi i} \int_\gamma \frac{\hat f_n(\zeta) \, d\zeta}{\zeta - z} = \frac{1}{2 \pi i} \int_\gamma \frac{f_n(\zeta) \, d\zeta}{\zeta - z} $$ for $0 < |z - P | < \rho$ and all $n$. And since $f_n \to f$ uniformly on the image of $\gamma$ it follows that $$ f(z) = \frac{1}{2 \pi i} \int_\gamma \frac{f(\zeta) \, d\zeta}{\zeta - z} $$ for $0 < |z - P | < \rho$. The right-hand side is a continuous (even holomorphic) function in $D(P,\rho)$, which means that $f$ can be holomorphically extended at $P$ as well.


Alternatively one can argue as follows: Each $f_n$ and $f$ can be developed into Laurent series at $z=P$: $$ f_n(z) = \sum_{k=-\infty}^\infty a_{k}^{(n)} (z-P)^k \, , \, f(z) = \sum_{k=-\infty}^\infty a_{k} (z-P)^k $$ and the coefficients can be computed with a generalized Cauchy integral formula: $$ a_{k}^{(n)} = \frac{1}{2 \pi i}\int_\gamma \frac{f_n(z) \, dz}{(z-P)^{n+1}} \, , \, a_{k} = \frac{1}{2 \pi i}\int_\gamma \frac{f(z) \, dz}{(z-P)^{n+1}} $$ The locally uniform convergence implies that $$ \lim_{n \to \infty} a_{k}^{(n)} = a_k $$ for all $k \in \Bbb Z$. If each $f_n$ has a removable singularity at $z=P$ then $a_{k}^{(n)} = 0$ for all $n$ and all $k < 0$, and consequently $a_k = 0$ for $k < 0$, so that $f$ has a removable singularity at $z=P$ as well.

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