Use the angular-frequency Fourier transform convention
For the piecewise smooth functions here, the inverse gives the function at continuity points and the mean of one-sided limits at a jump. Values assigned at individual points do not affect the transform.
The zero initial value and slope select a forward Green's function: set it to zero for , and choose the right piece to start at zero with slope one. This gives
For on and zero elsewhere,
Indeed . It and its first derivative match at one, while at zero. The only homogeneous solution with these two initial limits is zero, so this solution too is unique. Its growth at infinity is allowed by these boundary conditions.
The denominator factors as . Neither root cancels against the numerator, and both are simple, so the finite singularities are
This is a rational function, so it has no branch points. At infinity, putting gives , analytic at zero; infinity is therefore a removable singularity with value zero.
Reflect the source across the equatorial plane and subtract the two ball kernels. This gives the Dirichlet Green function inside a hemisphere . It is zero on the spherical boundary because each ball kernel is zero there, and on the plane because reflection makes their values equal.
For a point charge , Poisson's equation in SI units is , so . Writing for the reflected inverse point gives
The construction uses the real charge, its negative reflected image, a negative inversion image of magnitude , and its positive reflected image. Reflection and inversion commute. All three images lie outside the open upper half-ball, and the prescribed zero boundary values determine the electrostatic potential uniquely.
If an element has order six, it generates , so . Otherwise choose an element of order three. The preceding result excludes any further order-three elements outside , and there are no elements of order six by assumption. Each of the other three elements must therefore have order two. Thus
The noncyclic case is the symmetric group on three points, as the classification of a group of order six further identifies.
For a complex derivative to exist, the difference quotient must agree along real and imaginary increments. These give and , respectively. Equating their real and imaginary parts gives the Cauchy-Riemann equations
For , the components are and . The first equation requires , so ; the second requires , so . Thus zero is the only possible differentiability point. Directly,
so . The function is differentiable at that isolated point but is not holomorphic on any neighborhood of it.
For large , expand in to obtain
The axisymmetric exterior multipole expansion replaces each on the positive axis by . Reflection symmetry eliminates the odd multipoles, so
The leading term is the potential of total charge concentrated at the center; the next is its electric quadrupole correction. On either axis , recovering the same even axis potential.
Write . The Taylor expansion gives the near-axis result
To extend off the axis, work separately above and below the charged plane. In either source-free half-space the regular axisymmetric solid harmonics are . Matching the positive-axis coefficients, using , and then reflecting in the disk gives
Here is a Legendre polynomial. The quadratic term is . The linear term is above and below; it represents the discontinuity of the normal electric field. A single regular spherical expansion across the entire charged sheet would incorrectly remove that jump.

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