Real Bargmann spaces, Fischer decompositions, and sets of uniqueness for polyharmonic functions

DOI10.1215/00127094-2008-008MaRDI QIDQ2482869zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 25 April 2008

Published in Duke Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://hdl.handle.net/10197/5474

polyharmonic function real-analytic function

Real algebraic and real-analytic geometry (14P99) Biharmonic and polyharmonic equations and functions in higher dimensions (31B30) Analyticity in context of PDEs (35A20)

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It is a well known and elementary fact that any polynomial \(f\) on \(\mathbb{R} ^{n}\) can be expressed as \(f(x)=\left\| x\right\| ^{2}q(x)+r(x)\), where \(q,r\) are polynomials and \(\Delta r=0\). This significant paper establishes a remarkable generalization of this fact, as follows. Let \( A(B_{R})\) denote the algebra of all real-analytic functions, on the open ball \(B_{R}\) of centre \(0\) and radius \(R\), whose expansion in terms of homogeneous polynomials\ converges absolutely and uniformly on compact subsets of \(B_{R}\). The author shows that, for a given elliptic polynomial \(P \) of degree \(2k\) and for all sufficiently large radii \(R\), any function \(f\) in \(A(B_{R})\) can be expressed uniquely as \(f=Pq+r\), where \(q,r\in A(B_{R})\) and \(\Delta ^{k}r=0\). This result has several interesting applications to problems previously posed by other authors. One such application answers a question of Hayman by showing that, if \(\Delta ^{k}f=0\) on \(\mathbb{R}^{n}\) and \(f=0\) on \(k\) distinct ellipsoids, then \(f\equiv 0\). Another application answers a question of \textit{D. Khavinson} and \textit{H. S. Shapiro} [Bull. Lond. Math. Soc. 24, 456--468 (1992; Zbl 0799.35030)] by characterizing ellipsoids as the only bounded domains (among those with boundary belonging to a certain class of algebraic hypersurfaces) for which the Dirichlet problem with entire boundary data always yields as solution an entire harmonic function.

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