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The punctured disc has an irregular boundary point and a continuous boundary datum with no harmonic solution
Statement refuted
A bounded plane domain need not solve the Dirichlet problem for every continuous boundary datum. The punctured disc with boundary values on and at the puncture is a witness.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The punctured disc , the boundary datum equal to on and at .
A bounded harmonic function on a punctured disc extends harmonically across the puncture (A bounded harmonic function near an isolated puncture extends harmonically).
On the unit disc, the only continuous harmonic function with zero boundary values is the zero function (The bounded plane Dirichlet problem has at most one continuous harmonic solution).
If every boundary point of a bounded domain were regular, Perron's method would solve every continuous Dirichlet problem there (On a regular bounded plane domain, Perron's method solves the Dirichlet problem).
Counterexample
Suppose were a continuous harmonic solution of this boundary-value problem on . Then is bounded on every punctured neighbourhood of because it extends continuously to the puncture with value . By [L1], extends to a harmonic function on the full unit disc.
The extension still has boundary value on the unit circle, so [L2] forces on the closed unit disc. But then , contradicting the prescribed puncture value . Therefore no such harmonic solution exists.
Since one continuous boundary datum is not solvable on , [L3] shows that cannot have all boundary points regular. In particular, the puncture is an irregular boundary point.
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Sources
- Boris Khoruzhenko, Potential Theory lecture notes (standard reference, not scraped)