I am trying to solve the following two problems:
1) Prove that the functions cos(z), sin(z) are surjective over the complex numbers.
2) Find all z∈C: cos(z)∈R and find all z∈C: sin(z)∈R.
For 1),I've tried to prove it for the function cos(z) (I suppose the other one is analogue) so I've used the fact that cos(z)=eiz+e−iz2.
Let w∈C, I want to show there exists z∈C:f(z)=w, i.e., eiz+e−iz2=w, multiplying by 2 and then by eiz yields e2iz+1=2weiz iff e2iz−2weiz+1=0.
I don't know if this approach is the correct one but here I've replaced eiz by x, so the solutions of the equation would be the roots of the polynomial p(x)=x2−2wx+1, by the quadratic formula, I get that x∈{2w+w02,2w−w02}, where w20=4w2−4.
Then, eiz∈{2w+w02,2w−w02}. At this point I got lost, I would like to explicitly show that z exists and I can't see existence directly from the fact that eiz=2w+w02 or eiz=2w−w02.
First I thought of taking logarithm of both sides of the equation ir order to solve for z, but this is not a legitimate operation unless eiz∈R.
I couldn't go any farther.
For point 2) I have no idea what to do, should I use the identity cos(z)=eiz+e−iz2?
I would appreciate some help with the two points (specially with point 2), at least in 1) I could do something).
Btw, Happy new year!
Answer
1) Note that one of 2w+w02,2w−w02 must be nonzero, and that eiz achieves all values except 0, since for any reiθ∈C we have
reiθ=ei(θ−ilnr)
thus we have some z such that eiz=2w+w02 or eiz=2w−w02.
2) If we write z=x+iy then
cos(z)=eix−y+e−ix+y2=e−yeix+ey¯eix2
which has conjugate
e−y¯eix+eyeix2
so cos(z) is real iff
e−yeix+ey¯eix=e−y¯eix+eyeix.
If eix is real then x=nπ for some n∈N. Otherwise eix and ¯eix are linearly independent over R, so e−y=ey thus y=0.
The case of sin is similar for both problems.
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