 Strong maximum principle for harmonic functions (source code)

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= Strong maximum principle for harmonic functions
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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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