Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2019/iii/paper-107/2/i/solution

Let the exterior ball be , tangent at . Then on , with equality only at . Choose and define
In two dimensions, is a harmonic function away from , so in . Moreover and on . Thus is a barrier for the Dirichlet problem, and .

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