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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Oxford 2015 Prelims Mathematics V 2 b iii Solution by
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False. Take , the open unit ball, and . This is a nonzero harmonic function. On the unit sphere, the outward unit normal vector is , soThus the prescribed Robin boundary condition holds. Unlike the preceding case, Green's identities now give , which permits nonzero solutions of the differential equation.
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