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Mathematicians know well that going over to the complex case usually simplifies a problem, rather than making it more complicated. For example, every algebraic equation of degree n has exactly n complex roots, while it is a difficult problem to find the number of real roots.
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Arnold, V.I. (1992). Complex Singularities. In: Catastrophe Theory. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-58124-3_15
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