Symmetry principle for the solutions to the Helmholtz equation in a half-space (Q2895862)

The authors study a symmetry principle for the solutions to the Helmholtz equation \(\Delta f+\lambda f=0\) in a half-space. In other words, they prove that it is possible to extend a solution to the Helmholtz equation from the half-space onto the whole space. The main result is similar to the Liouville theorem. It reads that if a solution \(f\) to the Helmholtz equation (with \(\lambda <0\)) in a half-space \(\mathbb R^k_+\) is such that it vanishes on the boundary of the half-space \(\mathbb R^k_+\) and that NEWLINE\[NEWLINE\int_{\mathbb R^k_+}\biggl| \frac{f(x)}{1+\| x\| ^n}\biggr| ^2\, dx<+\inftyNEWLINE\]NEWLINE for some \(n>0\), then \(f\) vanishes everywhere in \(\mathbb R^k_+\).