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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2023 iii Paper 107 4 b iv Solution by
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Fix and . Choose in the Perron family with , replace successive terms by finite maxima using part (i), and take their harmonic lifts on . The lifts remain in the family, are increasing, and are uniformly bounded. Interior estimates and the Arzela-Ascoli theorem give a harmonic limit on with and .
If somewhere in , take another family member larger than and repeat the maximum-and-lift construction. Its harmonic limit satisfies and . The strong minimum principle for elliptic operators forces , contradicting the strict inequality at . Thus on . Since was arbitrary, is smooth and harmonic in . This is the Perron method for the Dirichlet problem.
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