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Harnack's principle

In complex analysis, Harnack's principle is a theorem about the behavior of sequences of harmonic functions.

If the functions u1(z), u2(z), ... are harmonic in an open subset G of the complex plane C, and

u_1(z) \le u_2(z) \le ...

in every point of G, then the limit

\lim_{n\to\infty}u_n(z)

either is infinite in every point of the domain G or it is finite in every point of the domain, in both cases uniformly in each closed subset of G. In the latter case, the function

u(z) = \lim_{n\to\infty}u_n(z)

is harmonic in the set G.

01-04-2007 01:18:14
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