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A continuous plane function with the local mean-value property is harmonic

Statement

Let ΩC be open, and let u:ΩR be continuous. If u satisfies the local mean-value property of The circle and disc mean-value properties, then u is harmonic on Ω.

Facts & Assumptions

Given: A continuous function u:ΩR with the local mean-value property.

[L1]

The Poisson integral of continuous boundary data is the unique continuous harmonic extension to a closed disc (The Poisson integral gives the unique continuous harmonic extension on the closed unit disc).

[L2]

Harmonic functions satisfy the mean-value property (Plane harmonic functions satisfy the mean-value property).

Proof

technique · direct
1.1

Fix a closed disc D(a,R)Ω. By [L1], the boundary values tu(a+Reit) have a unique continuous harmonic Poisson extension v to D(a,R), and [L2] makes v satisfy the same mean-value property there. Put w:=uv. Then w is continuous on D(a,R), has the local mean-value property on D(a,R), and vanishes on the boundary circle.

L1L2givenalgebra
2.1

By [L3], the closed disc is compact, so w attains a maximum M and a minimum m on D(a,R). If M>0, then the boundary values being 0 force the maximum to occur at some interior point b. For a small circle centered at b, the circle mean-value property gives M=w(b) as the average of values all bounded above by M, so every value on that circle is also M. Repeating this argument on overlapping small circles shows that the set {w=M} is both open and closed in the connected disc, hence all of D(a,R); this contradicts the boundary value 0. Therefore M0.

step 1.1L3
3.1

Applying the same argument to w gives maxD(a,R)(w)0, so w0 and therefore w0 on the closed disc. Together with step 2.1 this gives w=0 on D(a,R), so u=v there.

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4.1

Since the closed disc was arbitrary and v is harmonic on its interior, u is harmonic on every point of Ω, hence on all of Ω.

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