When is a function satisfying the Cauchy-Riemann equations holomorphic?

See When is a Function that Satisfies the Cauchy-Riemann Equations Analytic? J. D. Gray and S. A. Morris The American Mathematical Monthly Vol. 85, No. 4 (Apr., 1978), pp. 246-256.


There's also the Looman–Menchoff theorem.


Thinking of the Cauchy-Riemann operator as an elliptic partial differential operator, the basic elliptic regularity result implies that any distribution satisfying the C-R equation is a holomorphic function. For example, locally integrable suffices. This result was used in Gunning' "Riemann Surfaces", for example, in the discussion of Serre duality.