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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2014 iii Paper 29 3 d Solution by
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Set , a positive harmonic function on . First justify its boundary behavior. For with finite, part (c) makes bounded. Any subsequential limit lies in . If , continuity of the inverse inside would give , a contradiction. ThusThis boundary degeneration under a mapping-out function is valid without a smooth or locally connected hull boundary.
The harmonic function consequently has nonpositive finite-boundary values. Its value tends uniformly to zero at infinity, by the Laurent series. On the bounded domain , the maximum principle for harmonic functions bounds by , where . Let with fixed. We obtainThis is the height contraction of a hydrodynamically normalized mapping-out function. The exhaustion controls infinity explicitly, which is necessary when using a maximum principle on an unbounded domain.
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