Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2016 iii Paper 107 2 iii Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-06
Fix , , and the power barrier for an exterior cone from part (i). Write . By continuity of the boundary data, there is such that on . On the rest of the boundary, . The boundary is compact, so is bounded. Choose large enough that andThen the Perron subfunction for the Poisson equation and its superfunction counterpartsatisfy , , and on the whole boundary. The near-boundary ordering uses the choice of ; the remaining ordering uses the choice of . In particular the Perron family is nonempty and bounded above.
The Perron method for the Dirichlet problem and the permitted comparison give . Since as , we obtainLetting provesThe interior Perron theorem gives continuity inside , and the displayed limit together with continuity of proves the continuous extension with the required boundary trace. Thus every boundary point is a regular boundary point.