Boundaries of graphs of harmonic functions

DOI10.3842/SIGMA.2009.068zbMATH Open1192.58001arXiv0903.1018OpenAlexW2060013919MaRDI QIDQ970250FDOQ970250

Authors: Daniel Fox 

Publication date: 17 May 2010

Published in: SIGMA. Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Harmonic functions $u:{mathbbR}^{n}o{mathbbR}^m$ are equivalent to integral manifolds of an exterior differential system with independence condition $(M,mathcalI,omega)$. To this system one associates the space of conservation laws $mathcalC$. They provide necessary conditions for $g:{mathbbS}^{n-1}oM$ to be the boundary of an integral submanifold. We show that in a local sense these conditions are also sufficient to guarantee the existence of an integral manifold with boundary $g({mathbbS}^{n-1})$. The proof uses standard linear elliptic theory to produce an integral manifold $G:D^{n}oM$ and the completeness of the space of conservation laws to show that this candidate has $g({mathbbS}^{n-1})$ as its boundary. As a corollary we obtain a new elementary proof of the characterization of boundaries of holomorphic disks in ${mathbbC}^m$ in the local case.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0903.1018

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zbMATH Keywords

moment conditionsconservation lawsexterior differential systemsintegrable systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Laplace operator, Helmholtz equation (reduced wave equation), Poisson equation (35J05) Harmonic, subharmonic, superharmonic functions in higher dimensions (31B05) Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic equations (35J25) Exterior differential systems (Cartan theory) (58A15) Differential forms in global analysis (58A10)

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