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Weyl's lemma for the Laplacian
Statement
Assume the Axiom of Countable Choice .
If and , there is a unique smooth harmonic with .
Proof
Given: Countable Choice (The Axiom of Countable Choice ()) and on the open set .
The distributional Laplacian commutes with local mollification makes smooth and harmonic on [given].
Each is harmonic by step 1.1, so the ball and spherical mean-value properties apply under Countable Choice. Radial mollification therefore fixes it: on , and likewise . Associativity of distributional convolution with these compactly supported test kernels identifies the two double convolutions on that common shrunken domain. Hence there.
On each compact subset of , all sufficiently small regularizations agree by step 2.1; their common value defines a smooth harmonic . For a test function supported in that compact subset, : the mollified tests converge to with all derivatives on one fixed compact support, so distributional continuity applies. Since on the support for small , this gives .
If , then almost everywhere; continuity makes everywhere [given]. ∎
Depends on
- The Axiom of Countable Choice ($\mathrm{AC}_\omega$)
- Distributional harmonicity and Poisson's equation on an open subset of Rn
- Ball mean-value property for harmonic functions under Countable Choice
- Radial mollification fixes local mean-value functions
- The distributional Laplacian commutes with local mollification
Used by
- Locally integrable weakly harmonic functions are smooth Corollary
- Derivatives of harmonic functions are harmonic Lemma
- Locally bounded harmonic families have harmonic subsequential limits Lemma
- Weak solutions factor holomorphically in Hölder coordinates Lemma
- Every 1-quasiconformal homeomorphism is conformal Theorem
- Green and harmonic-measure representation with the 2π sign Theorem
- Local Riesz decomposition of a plane subharmonic function Theorem
- Outgoing exterior Dirichlet uniqueness for the smooth combined-field geometry Theorem
- The principle of descent and the logarithmic domination principle Theorem
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Sources
- PDE source treatment (standard reference, not scraped)