The maximum of
in the closed unit disk can be written as for some positive integer . Find .
Note that above is the natural logarithm ( ).
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Hint : Writing z = x+i y, note that the function to maximize is log(Abs(2+z^5)).
As a bonus, note that this implies that the function to be maximized is harmonic (since 2+z^5 is nonzero and holomorphic in an open set containing the closed unit disk).