A rigidity result for biharmonic functions clamped at a corner (Q1891382)

The author analyses the behaviour of a nonhomogeneous biharmonic function \(u(x,y)\), \((x,y)\in \mathbb{R}^2\), defined in a circular sector of the complex plane \(\mathbb{C}\). He proves a result which implies that the nonhomogeneous biharmonic Green's function for a sector of angle \(\alpha\), \(0<\alpha< \pi\), must be singular at \(z=0\). In fact, he shows that, if \(u\) is a nonconstant biharmonic function, whose both first order partial derivatives vanish on a curve which contains a conformal image of a pair of line segments meeting at an angle \(\alpha\), then \(u\) must be singular at the corner.