Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2019/iii/paper-107/1/ii/solution

Fix . Solvability of the Dirichlet problem on a ball gives a unique harmonic function with on . Both and have the mean value property for harmonic functions, so has it as well and vanishes on .
If were not zero, compactness of would give either a positive maximum or a negative minimum in the interior. Part 1(i) would make constant, contradicting its zero boundary values. Hence on . Every point lies in such a ball, so

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