Harmonic Functions in the Unit Disk

Let \(\Omega\) denote the open unit disc in the complex plane. A function \(u(x,y)\) is said to be harmonic in \(\Omega\) if the following holds: \(u\) belongs to the class \(C^2(\Omega)\) and \(\Delta u(x,y)= 0\) for all \((x,y)\) in \(\Omega\), where \(\Delta u= {\partial^2 u\over\partial x^2}+ {\partial^2u\over\partial y^2}\). The author uses the expression ``\(w(r,\theta)\) is harmonic in \(\Omega\) to signify that there exists \(u(x,y)\) harmonic in \(\Omega\) such that \(w(r,\theta)= u(r\cos\theta, r\sin\theta)\) for \(0\leq r< 1\) and \(-\infty<\theta<+\infty\). Let \(\|w(r,\cdot)\|_\infty\) denote the uniform norm on concentric circles of radius \(r\), i.e., \(\|w(r,\cdot)\|_\infty= \max_{0\leq\theta\leq 2\pi}|w(r,\theta)|\). In this paper the author proves the following theorem. Given that \(w(r,\theta)\) is harmonic in \(\Omega\), suppose that: (i) \(\lim_{r\to 1}w(r,\theta)= 0\) for all \(\theta\) and (ii) \(\|w(r,\cdot)\|_\infty= o((1- r)^{-2})\) as \(r\to 1\). Then \(w(r,\theta)\) is identically zero in \(\Omega\).

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