On a uniqueness property of harmonic functions

DOI10.1007/BF03321677MaRDI QIDQ934534zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Dmitry Khavinson, H. S. Shapiro

Publication date 29 July 2008

Published in Computational Methods and Function Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf03321677

zbMATH Keywords

analytic continuationcells of harmonicityharmonic function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Harmonic, subharmonic, superharmonic functions in higher dimensions (31B05) Analyticity in context of PDEs (35A20)

Review text

Let \(\Omega \) be a domain in \(\mathbb{R}^n\) that is (axially) symmetric about the \(x_1\)-axis. It is shown that, if \(u\) is a harmonic function on \( \Omega \) that vanishes on an interval of the \(x_1\)-axis contained in \( \Omega \), then \(u\) vanishes at all points of the \(x_1\)-axis that lie in \( \Omega \). In the special case where \(\Omega \) is a spherical shell, this answers a question of Nadirashvili. The authors then extend their ideas to deal with solutions of more general analytic elliptic equations.

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