Dirichlet uniqueness for the Poisson equation
ID: dirichlet-uniqueness-for-the-poisson-equation
The difference of two classical Poisson equation solutions with the same Dirichlet boundary conditions is a harmonic function vanishing on the boundary. Under sufficient boundary smoothness, Green's first identity gives . More generally the maximum principle for harmonic functions proves the same uniqueness for functions continuous up to the boundary and twice continuously differentiable in the bounded interior.
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