Question: How do I solve for the real part of a variable?

Hi

I am trying to solve an inequality for the real parts of the solution to be less than 0. How do I do that? When trying to use solve, and specifying Re() Maple warns about lost solutions. I can see there are complex solutions to the equation, but i cannot make Maple calculate them. Maple gives me a range for the real solutions (6.1.11) and (6.1.12), but if I use a number out of the range the inequality is still met, the solutions is just complex, which does not matter. The variable a seems to be able to be between -8 and 3 for the real part of the solution to be less than 0.

Kind regards

Simon

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