Poisson kernel for the unit disk

ID: poisson-kernel-for-the-unit-disk

For , this Poisson kernel for the unit disk has the uniformly convergent Fourier series
The identity follows by taking the real part of the geometric series . For integrable -periodic boundary data , its Poisson extension is
where are the usual Fourier coefficients. Each term is a harmonic function in the open disk. For continuous boundary data, the extension solves the Dirichlet problem with those boundary values.

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