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The native PDF repeats $d{W}_y$ in its list of independent noise terms, whereas its third stochastic differential equation uses $d{W}_z$. We use the intended three independent coordinate Brownian motions $W_x,W_y,W_z$.

Put $\mathbf{X}=(X,Y,Z)$, $r=|\mathbf{X}|$ and $S=r^2$. Before the origin is reached, Itô's formula givesThe $6$ is the sum of three quadratic variation terms, each $2dt$. The drift contribution is $-2\alpha dt$ because the numerator is $|\mathbf{X}{|}^2$. The radial stochastic integral can be written using a scalar Brownian motion $B$:Thus $S/2$ is a squared Bessel process of dimension $\delta =3-\alpha$ until it reaches zero. If this equation is taken globally with the usual nonnegative squared Bessel process continuation, taking expected values givesThe stochastic integral has zero expected value: stopping first at large levels bounds the integrands, yields a finite first moment for $S$, and then makes $\mathbb{E}{\int }_0^{t}S(u)du$ finite, so the unrestricted integral is a square-integrable martingale.

Boundary qualification. The punctured domain in the question does not itself specify that continuation. The boundary classification of a Bessel process says that the origin is inaccessible from $r_0>0$ when $\delta \ge 2$, equivalently $\alpha \le 1$. In this parameter range the original stochastic differential equation is global in the stated domain and the boxed result holds as written.

For $1<\alpha <3$, we have $0<\delta <2$: the origin is reached in finite time with probability one. One can also see accessibility directly from the radial generator of an SDE diffusionFor $r<b$, the harmonic function $1-(r/b{)}^{\alpha -1}$ is the probability of reaching zero before $b$. Finite-time access follows by using the nonnegative functionin the stopped Itô formula; it bounds the expected value of the time to reach zero or $b$. Letting $b\to \infty$ gives almost sure finite hitting of zero. The coefficients of the original vector stochastic differential equation are undefined there, so its stated punctured-domain version has no prescribed long-time evolution in this range.

The natural continuing radial squared Bessel process gives $6-2\alpha$, but stopping and holding the particle at the origin would give a different answer. Indeed, with $T_0$ the first hit of zero, Itô's formula for the stopped process givesSince $T_0<\infty$ almost surely, dominated convergence applied to $(t\wedge T_0)/t\le 1$ givesTherefore $6-2\alpha$ is the usual continued-radial answer; for $1<\alpha <3$ a boundary convention is necessary. It is not a uniquely defined limit for the punctured-domain model alone.

Subtract the particular plane Poiseuille flow profile from the full rectangular duct flow. The remainder is a harmonic function:The data are even in $x$ and $y$. The boundary value problem is unique: if two solutions differed by $v$, Green's first identity and the zero Dirichlet boundary condition would giveThus $v$ is constant, and its zero boundary values force $v=0$. Reflection of a solution in either coordinate axis therefore gives the same solution. We may seek even separated eigenfunctions.

Use separation of variables withEach summand solves the Laplace equation, vanishes at $y=\pm b$, and has the required evenness. The hyperbolic cosine ratio equals one at either side wall. The functions $\cos (k_{n}y)$ have orthogonality relationThey are the even Dirichlet eigenfunctions on $[-b,b]$, so their Fourier series represents the even boundary data. Projecting that data onto the $n$th eigenfunction yields the Fourier coefficientFor completeness, two integrations by parts give the quadratic arch expansion in half-integer cosine modes: the displayed integral is $4(-1{)}^n/k_n^3$, agreeing with the identity supplied in the paper.

Adding the particular solution givesThe coefficients are absolutely summable and the hyperbolic cosine ratio is at most one throughout the closed rectangle, giving uniform convergence and the prescribed boundary values. On compact subsets of the interior, the hyperbolic cosine ratio supplies exponential decay in $n$, justifying differentiation of the series and the Laplace equation. The side-wall correction slows the plane Poiseuille flow enough to satisfy all four no-slip boundary conditions.

Put $\lambda ={\omega }^2/g$ andThis polynomial is a harmonic function: $Q_{xx}+Q_{zz}=0$. Also $Q_x(0,z)=i\omega c$, $Q_x(L,z)=0$ and $Q_z(x,-h)=0$. Thus $G$ satisfies Laplace's equation with homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions on both side walls and the bottom. Its Fourier cosine series consequently has the formThe surface condition becomes $G_z-\lambda G=H(x)$, whereFor a nonzero forcing frequency away from the natural frequencies, the coefficients of the oscillating-wall forcing of a rectangular tank areHere $k_0=0$ in the definition of $H_0$. In fact $H_n=2i\omega c\lambda /(L{k}_n^2)$ for $n\ge 1$, since ${\int }_0^L(L-x{)}^2\cos (k_{n}x)dx=2L/k_n^2$. The zero-mode coefficient ensures that the mean surface elevation is $hc/L$ in complex amplitude, exactly the first-order volume conservation adjustment to the moving wall.

For this change of variables,and $u_{xx}+u_{yy}=0=v_{xx}+v_{yy}$. The second derivative chain rule therefore givesThus the transformation rule for the Laplacian isFor $f=x+y$, its Laplacian is zero. At every point with $(x,y)\ne (0,0)$, division by $4(x^2+y^2)$ provesThis conclusion applies to each local inverse branch of the change of variables: its Jacobian determinant is $4(x^2+y^2)$, so such a branch exists away from the origin by the inverse function theorem. A single globally defined $g$ cannot represent $x+y$ on the entire plane, since $(x,y)$ and $(-x,-y)$ give the same $(u,v)$ but generally opposite values of $x+y$. Nor can a differentiable $g$ represent this $f$ in a neighborhood of the origin: the multivariable chain rule there would give $f_x=f_y=0$, contradicting $f_x=f_y=1$. The requested harmonic function conclusion is therefore a local statement on nonsingular branches.^[ref]

Use the product rule for the Laplace operator:Thus Laplace's equation, away from the origin, reduces to $g^{\prime \prime }+3g^{\prime }/r=0$. On the line $x=0$ the displayed expression vanishes automatically; requiring the equation on an open region gives the same radial equation by continuity from $x\ne 0$. Multiplying by $r^3$ gives $(r^3{g}^{\prime }{)}^{\prime }=0$, so $g^{\prime }=C{r}^{-3}$ and $g=A+B{r}^{-2}$. ThereforeIf extension through the origin is required, $B=0$: along the horizontal axis the second term is $B/x$. The remaining harmonic function is $Ax$.

A smooth real function on a complex manifold is pluriharmonic if $\partial \bar{\partial }f=0$. A complex-valued function satisfies the same equation exactly when both real and imaginary parts are pluriharmonic. Restrictions to complex coordinate lines are harmonic functions. On a compact connected complex manifold, choose a maximum of $|f|$ and apply the harmonic maximum principle successively along coordinate lines; the function is constant on a polydisc, then on the manifold by open-and-closed propagation. Without connectedness, constancy is componentwise.

The displayed Poisson integral is the bounded harmonic function on the upper half-plane with continuous boundary values $f(x,0)=e^{-|x|}$. Taking a Fourier transform in $x$ reduces Laplace's equation to ${\hat{f}}_{yy}-s^2\hat{f}=0$, and the bounded solution has multiplier $e^{-y|s|}$. The convolution theorem gives the displayed expression. At frequency zero the transformed function is constant in $y$, not zero: its value is the total boundary integral, two.

The function decays uniformly as $x^2+y^2\to \infty$. For large $y$, use $P_y\le 1/(\pi y)$ and the boundary L1 norm two. When $y$ is bounded and $|x|$ is large, split the convolution into $|t|\le |x|/2$ and its complement: the kernel is small on the first part, and the exponential boundary value is uniformly small on the second. This also distinguishes spatial decay of the harmonic function from decay of its zero-frequency Fourier coefficient.

For boundary value $c$ on $(-a,a)$ and zero outside, integrating the Poisson kernel for the upper half-plane gives the displayed bounded harmonic function for $y>0$. It approaches the assigned values at boundary continuity points and the midpoint value $c/2$ at either jump. Changing the value at an isolated endpoint does not alter the integral. This is the unique bounded harmonic extension; pointwise decay in the vertical direction alone, without a spatial growth restriction, does not give uniqueness.

The Poisson integral convolves boundary data with the Poisson kernel to produce a harmonic function in a half-space. In the upper half-plane,

The disk Poisson integral is the harmonic function with boundary data $u$, given byIt is the real part of the Schwarz integral on the unit disk for real data. The nonnegative kernel has integral one; smooth boundary data extend smoothly to the circle. This disk formula should be distinguished from the half-plane formula.

For $0\le r<1$, this Poisson kernel for the unit disk has the uniformly convergent Fourier seriesThe identity follows by taking the real part of the geometric series $1+2{\sum }_{n\ge 1}(r{e}^{i\theta }{)}^n$. For integrable $2\pi$-periodic boundary data $f$, its Poisson extension iswhere $a_n,b_n$ 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.

In three dimensions the Poisson kernel for the upper half-space isIt gives the harmonic function $\varphi (x,y,z)={\int }_{{\mathbb{R}}^2}{P}_z(x-\xi ,y-\eta )f(\xi ,\eta )d\xi d\eta$ for compatible boundary data. The method of images constructs the zero-boundary Dirichlet Green function by subtracting the reflected-source Green function of the Laplacian from the source kernel. On the boundary plane the outward unit normal is $-e_z$, and $-{\partial }_{n}G=P_z$, giving the integral formula through Green's second identity.

The kernel is positive and has integral one: in polar coordinates this is $z{\int }_0^{\infty }r(r^2+z^2{)}^{-3/2}dr=1$. Its mass outside any fixed disk tends to zero as $z\downarrow 0$. It is therefore an approximate identity, recovering bounded boundary data at continuity points. At a jump across a smooth curve, the vertical limit gives the average of the two adjacent values; assigning a different value only on that curve does not change the harmonic extension.

For the face $z=0$ of $x>0,z>0$, set $r_{\mp }^2=(x\mp \xi {)}^2+(y-\eta {)}^2+z^2$, with source boundary coordinates $\xi >0$, $\eta \in \mathbb{R}$. The Poisson kernel for data on that face and zero data on $x=0$ is the displayed positive difference. It follows by differentiating the Dirichlet Green function for a three-dimensional quarter-space in the inward source direction. Integrating it against bounded continuous face data gives the bounded harmonic solution away from compatibility issues at the edge. Without a boundedness or suitable infinity condition, uniqueness fails because the harmonic function $xz$ vanishes on both faces.

Its integral over this one face is $2\arctan (x/z)/\pi$, the harmonic measure of that face. To calculate it, integration in $\eta$ first gives $z\{[(x-\xi {)}^2+z^2{]}^{-1}-[(x+\xi {)}^2+z^2{]}^{-1}\}/\pi$; the remaining half-line integral is an elementary arctangent difference. This mass lies between zero and one: the other face carries the remaining boundary influence.

A prescribed point is almost surely never visited by planar Brownian motion started elsewhere. The harmonic function $\log |z-w|$ gives an annular hitting probability that tends to zero as the inner radius decreases to zero. This does not contradict recurrence of planar Brownian motion, which concerns neighbourhoods.

A potential dipole in three dimensions is the potential flow $\mathbf{u}=\nabla \varphi$ with $\varphi =\mathbf{d}\cdot \mathbf{x}/r^3$. Away from the origin its potential is a harmonic function, so it is also a constant-pressure Stokes flow. Its velocity decays as $r^{-3}$ and its vorticity is zero. It is distinct from a stresslet, whose leading velocity decays as $r^{-2}$.

Potential theory studies harmonic functions, subharmonic functions, and the Laplace operator, including harmonic measure, regular boundary points, and the Dirichlet problem. The Brownian representation of the Dirichlet problem connects these analytic objects with exit probability distributions.

For integer angular frequency $m\ge 0$, the Laplacian in polar coordinates gives the displayed identity on $r>0$ by direct differentiation. Consequently a source $\beta r^q\cos (m\theta )$ has particular solution $\beta r^{q+2}\cos (m\theta )/[(q+2{)}^2-m^2]$ when the denominator is nonzero. The sine case is identical. If $s=q+2=\pm m\ne 0$, differentiating the identity with respect to $s$ gives the resonant particular solution $\beta r^s\ln r\cos (m\theta )/(2s)$. For $s=m=0$, the radial source $\beta r^{-2}$ instead has particular solution $\beta (\ln r{)}^2/2$. These are local statements on the punctured plane; boundedness, smoothness at the origin and boundary data must be imposed separately by adding suitable harmonic functions.

For a complex-valued harmonic function in the first quadrant, write $\Phi =q_z$ and $\Psi (\bar{z})=q_{\bar{z}}$ as independent holomorphic functions. Prescribe $i(e^{i{\beta }_1}\Phi -e^{-i{\beta }_1}\Psi )=g_1$ on the imaginary axis and $e^{-i{\beta }_2}\Phi +e^{i{\beta }_2}\Psi =g_2$ on the real axis. If ${\beta }_1+{\beta }_2=n\pi /2$, set $ϵ=(-1{)}^n$. Reflection into four quadrants produces a scalar Riemann-Hilbert problem with parity $H(-z)=-ϵH(z)$ and known jumps. Provided its corner and large-arc contributions vanish, the Cauchy integral formula givesComplex boundary data do not justify replacing $q_{\bar{z}}$ by the conjugate of $q_z$.

Rectangular duct flow is steady flow of a Newtonian fluid down a straight rectangular pipe under a constant axial pressure gradient $-G$. For stationary walls and unidirectional flow, incompressibility eliminates axial dependence and the Navier-Stokes equation becomes a two-dimensional Poisson equation with zero Dirichlet boundary conditions. Subtracting a plane Poiseuille flow profile leaves a harmonic function that repairs the side-wall values using separation of variables. Uniqueness follows from Green's first identity: the difference of two solutions has zero boundary values and zero integral of the squared gradient, and hence vanishes.

A harmonic function on a punctured ball that is bounded near the missing point extends uniquely to a harmonic function on the whole ball. The extension can be defined by the mean value property for harmonic functions; interior estimates then give smoothness across the point.