Harmonic potential between a grounded line and a circular boundary

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In the upper half-plane outside a circle of radius centered at , with , set . The displayed harmonic function is zero on the real axis and equals on the circle. Indeed, the Apollonius circle with ratio has center and radius ; hence . The logarithmic singularity at is inside the excluded circle, and the one at is below the real axis. The real part of a local holomorphic logarithm is harmonic even if its imaginary part is multivalued. The potential tends to zero at infinity. Finite boundary values alone do not impose a growth condition at infinity; uniqueness in the unbounded domain needs such an additional condition, for example boundedness with the prescribed limit.

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