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For every open set $U\subseteq {\mathbb{R}}^n$, smooth functions in $U$ are dense in $W^{1,p}(U)$ for $1\le p<\infty$. Near a flat boundary, one may first translate the function into the domain and then apply a mollifier.

Write points of $U$ as $(x,y)$ with $x>0$. For $h>0$, translate $u$ into the domain byContinuity of translations in $L^p$ applied to $u,D_{x}u,D_{y}u$ givesas $h\downarrow 0$. Choose a standard mollifier ${\rho }_{\epsilon }$ supported in a ball of radius $\epsilon <h/2$. For $(x,y)\in U$, the convolutiononly samples points with first coordinate greater than $-h$, so it is well-defined and smooth throughout $U$. The approximation-to-the-identity theorem, applied also to each weak derivative, allows $\epsilon (h)<h/2$ to be chosen so thatTaking $h=1/j$ and using the triangle inequality proves the density of smooth functions in a Sobolev space.

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For a harmonic function $u$, letThe divergence theorem givesSince $M(r)\to u(x)$ as $r\downarrow 0$, $M(r)=u(x)$. Integrating the spherical averages in the radial variable gives the corresponding ball average, proving the mean value property for harmonic functions. If $u$ attains its maximum at an interior point, the average of the nonnegative function $\max u-u$ on every sufficiently small centred sphere is zero. Continuity makes $u$ constant on those spheres, and connectedness propagates that value through the domain. Thus the weak maximum principle for elliptic operators gives

For the derivative estimate, choose $r>0$ smaller than half the distance from ${\Omega }^{\prime }$ to $\partial \Omega$, and let ${\rho }_r$ be a smooth radial mollifier supported in $B_r(0)$. Writing its convolution in polar coordinates and using the spherical mean value property shows that $u\ast {\rho }_r=u$ on ${\Omega }^{\prime }$. Hence, for every multi-index $\alpha$,so Holder inequality gives

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The Weyl lemma says that every locally integrable distributional solution of $\Delta u=0$ agrees almost everywhere with a smooth harmonic function. Convolution with a mollifier and the harmonic mean value property provide a standard proof.