Linear Partial Differential Equation

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I was trying to solve $$\frac{{\partial}^4\phi}{\partial{z^2}\partial\bar{z}^2}=0$$

Using the Wirtinger Derivatives $$\frac{\partial}{\partial z} = \frac{1}{2}(\frac{\partial }{\partial x} - i\frac{\partial }{\partial y})$$

$$\frac{\partial}{\partial \bar{z}} = \frac{1}{2}(\frac{\partial }{\partial x} + i\frac{\partial }{\partial y})$$

I used the following by multiplying the two wirtinger derivatives by itself, $$\frac{\partial^2}{\partial {z}^2} = \frac{1}{4}(\frac{\partial^2 }{\partial x^2} - 2i\frac{\partial^2 }{\partial y \partial x}-\frac{\partial^2 }{\partial y^2})$$

$$\frac{\partial^2}{\partial \bar{z}^2} = \frac{1}{4}(\frac{\partial^2 }{\partial x^2} + 2i\frac{\partial^2 }{\partial y \partial x}-\frac{\partial^2 }{\partial y^2})$$

And then I fit into the previous equation I wanted to solve and then got two linear partial differential equations by solving the real part and the imaginary part.

I'm having trouble how to solve them simultaneously.

Please help.

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Well, the whole point of using Wirtinger derivatives is to make this kind of problem easy. One can "trivially" see that $\phi = (\overline{z}+a)p(z) + (z+b)q(\overline{z})$ is a solution, for arbitrary functions p and q. Why is this "trivial"? Because $z$ and $\overline{z}$ behave as if they were (linearly) independent variables. Posing the question you did is very similar to (the same as?) asking for solutions to $$\frac{\partial^4\phi}{\partial^2s\partial^2t}=0$$ for two linearly independent variables $s$ and $t$. (And oh, by the way, you'd get a mess if you tried to solve the above, using $s=u+v$ and $t=u-v$ - the same mess that you are currently getting).