Help Me Prove this Identity (or find a counterexample)

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The discussion centers on proving the identity involving an analytic function f defined in an open set containing the closed unit disk. The identity in question is: \(\overline{f(0)} = \frac{1}{2\pi}\int_0^{2\pi}\frac{e^{i\phi}}{e^{i \phi}-z}\overline{f(e^{i\phi})}d\phi\). The user has tested functions such as z, z+1, and z+i but has not found a successful proof or counterexample. The challenge lies in the inability to assume that \(\overline{f(z)}\) is analytic and the limitations of algebraic manipulation.

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Let f be an analytic function defined in an open set containing the closed unit disk and let z in ℂ be fixed. I've simplified a more complicated expression down to this identity, and as implausible as it looks, after some numerical checking it does in fact appear to be true, but I can't find a way to prove it:

[tex]\overline{f(0)} = \frac{1}{2\pi}\int_0^{2\pi}\frac{e^{i\phi}}{e^{i \phi}-z}\overline{f(e^{i\phi})}d\phi[/tex]

The functions I tried were: z, z+1, and z+i, so nothing transcendental. We don't know that [itex]\overline{f(z)}[/itex] is analytic and we can't even push the conjugate inside the function, thus I feel like I don't have many tools at my disposal except for algebraic manipulation, and so far that hasn't gotten me anywhere.
 
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Poopsilon said:
Let f be an analytic function defined in an open set containing the closed unit disk and let z in ℂ be fixed. I've simplified a more complicated expression down to this identity, and as implausible as it looks, after some numerical checking it does in fact appear to be true, but I can't find a way to prove it:

[tex]\overline{f(0)} = \frac{1}{2\pi}\int_0^{2\pi}\frac{e^{i\phi}}{e^{i \phi}-z}\overline{f(e^{i\phi})}d\phi[/tex]

The functions I tried were: z, z+1, and z+i, so nothing transcendental. We don't know that [itex]\overline{f(z)}[/itex] is analytic and we can't even push the conjugate inside the function, thus I feel like I don't have many tools at my disposal except for algebraic manipulation, and so far that hasn't gotten me anywhere.

What is the original question?
 

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