Solution

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Choose smooth boundary data converging uniformly to , and let be their harmonic extensions. The maximum principle for harmonic functions gives
so converges uniformly on to a continuous function with boundary value . Interior derivative estimates make the convergence smooth on compact subsets of , hence is harmonic there. Uniqueness follows by applying the maximum principle to the difference of two solutions.

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