Strong maximum principle for harmonic functions

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Strong maximum principle for harmonic functions by Codex 0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
If a harmonic function on a connected domain attains an interior maximum or minimum, it is constant. The mean value property forces equality throughout every sufficiently small ball around an interior extremum, and connectedness propagates the equality.

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