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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2023 iii Paper 107 4 b vi Solution by
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Every boundary point of satisfies the exterior sphere condition. For a point on the inner spherical boundary, use a smaller ball inside the removed ball and tangent at that point; for a point on the cube, use a ball in a supporting exterior half-space. If the exterior ball has centre and radius , a local positive harmonic barrier isfor , while in two dimensions use . Adding a sufficiently large positive multiple of a global superharmonic function extends the local barrier across the bounded domain. Hence every boundary point is regular by part (v), and the Perron method for the Dirichlet problem produces a harmonic function attaining the prescribed continuous boundary data. The maximum principle for harmonic functions gives uniqueness.
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