Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2024/iii/paper-107/4/c/solution

Yes. Since and ,
The operator is uniformly elliptic and has nonpositive zeroth-order coefficient. If at an interior point, attains its nonnegative minimum there, so the strong minimum principle for elliptic operators gives on the connected ball .

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