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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2023 iii Paper 107 1 b ii Solution by
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On a relatively compact ball, mollification commutes with the Laplacian, so is a smooth harmonic function. Repeated interior derivative estimates, together with the Caccioppoli inequality, bound every derivative of on a smaller ball by the local norm of , uniformly as . The Arzela-Ascoli theorem and a diagonal argument give a smooth local limit, while mollification gives in . Thus the limit equals almost everywhere. After choosing this smooth representative, is harmonic pointwise. This is the Weyl lemma for an weak solution.
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