The harmonic Bergman kernel and the Friedrichs operator (Q1810348)

The main result is a pointwise bound on the harmonic Bergman kernel function (the reproducing kernel function for the space of square-integrable harmonic functions) on a bounded, simply connected planar domain that is sufficiently close to the unit disk. Closeness to the unit disk is measured by the closeness of the derivative of the Riemann mapping function to the constant function \(1\) in a certain space of Dirichlet type. The proof is based on expanding the harmonic Bergman kernel function in terms of the eigenfunctions and the eigenvalues of the so-called Friedrichs operator, which is the operator on the space of square-integrable holomorphic functions that conjugates a function and then projects the result back onto the holomorphic functions. An application of the main result is the positivity of the Green function of the biharmonic equation for simply connected domains that are sufficiently close to the unit disk.