A uniqueness result for harmonic functions
Author:
Richard F. Bass
Journal:
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 130 (2002), 1711-1716
MSC (2000):
Primary 31B05; Secondary 31B25
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-01-06221-9
Published electronically:
October 24, 2001
MathSciNet review:
1887018
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Abstract: Let ,
, and suppose
is harmonic in
and
on the closure of
. If the gradient of
vanishes continuously on a subset of
of positive
-dimensional Lebesgue measure and
satisfies certain regularity conditions, then
must be identically constant.
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Richard F. Bass
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269
Email:
bass@math.uconn.edu
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-01-06221-9
Keywords:
Harmonic,
Privalov,
unique continuation,
diffusions,
Bessel processes
Received by editor(s):
July 16, 2000
Received by editor(s) in revised form:
December 5, 2000
Published electronically:
October 24, 2001
Additional Notes:
This research was partially supported by NSF Grant DMS 9700721.
Communicated by:
Claudia M. Neuhauser
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