Logarithmic Dirichlet potential between a circle and a line
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In outside the circle with , the displayed bounded harmonic function is zero on the imaginary axis and on the circle. Put . The circle is the Apollonius circle ; its centre and radius are and . The point lies inside the excluded disk and outside the half-plane, so the logarithmic modulus is harmonic throughout the physical domain. Local branches of the complex logarithm suffice; its real part is globally single-valued even though a global complex logarithm need not exist. The potential tends to zero at infinity. A boundedness or far-field condition is needed to infer uniqueness from the finite boundary data. This is also the geometry of cylinder-plane image charges.
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