Harmonic functions via restricted mean-value theorems

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Authors Mohammad Javaheri

Publication date 20 September 2007

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Boundary value problems for functional-differential equations (34K10) Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic equations (35J25) Numerical methods for partial differential equations, boundary value problems (65N99)

Abstract: Let $f$ be a function on a bounded domain $Omegasubseteqmathbb{R}^n$ and $delta$ be a positive function on $Omega$ such that $B(x,delta(x))subseteqOmega$. Let $sigma(f)(x)$ be the average of $f$ over the ball $B(x,delta(x))$. The restricted mean-value theorems discuss the conditions on $f,delta,$ and $Omega$ under which $sigma(f)=f$ implies that $f$ is harmonic. In this paper, we study the stability of harmonic functions with respect to the map $sigma$. One expects that, in general, the sequence $sigm{a}^n(f)$ converges to a harmonic function. Among our results, we show that if $Omega$ is strongly convex (respectively $C^{2,alpha}$-smooth for some $alphain[0,1]$), the function $delta(x)$ is continuous, and $$ (respectively, $$), then $sigm{a}^n(f)$ converges to a harmonic function uniformly on $$.

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