Dirichlet Green function inside the unit disk
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With the convention , the displayed Dirichlet Green function vanishes on the unit circle. Indeed when . For , the second logarithm corresponds to an opposite image source at , outside the unit disc; it is a harmonic function throughout the interior. At the formula becomes . Its outward normal derivative in the boundary variable is , the Poisson kernel divided by . Green's second identity therefore gives the Poisson integral on the unit disk.
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