A bounded Lipschitz domain in $\mathbb{R}^n$: an open, bounded, nonempty, connected set whose boundary can be locally straightened by bi-Lipschitz maps. This is the natural class of domains for the Poisson Dirichlet problem.
- isOpen : IsOpen Ω
- isBounded : Bornology.IsBounded Ω
- nonempty : Ω.Nonempty
- isConnected : IsConnected Ω
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The Euclidean norm is invariant under negation: $|-x| = |x|$.
The custom euclidNormLP agrees with the Mathlib L^2 norm on Fin n → ℝ
via the WithLp 2 equivalence.
The Euclidean norm is nonnegative: $|x| \ge 0$.
Reverse triangle inequality for the Euclidean norm: $|a| - |b| \le |a - b|$.
Surface area $\omega_n$ of the unit sphere in $\mathbb{R}^n$, defined via the Gamma function: $\omega_n = 2\pi^{n/2}/\Gamma(n/2)$ for $n \ge 1$. For example $\omega_3 = 4\pi$. The convention $\omega_0 = 1$ is taken here.
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The unit sphere area $\omega_n$ is strictly positive for every $n$.
Classical formula: the area of the unit $2$-sphere in $\mathbb{R}^3$ is $\omega_3 = 4\pi$.
The fundamental solution $\Phi$ for the Laplacian $\Delta$ in $\mathbb{R}^n$ (Definition 1.0.1 of CM7): $\Phi(x) = \frac{1}{2\pi} \ln|x|$ for $n=2$, and $\Phi(x) = -\frac{1}{\omega_n |x|^{n-2}}$ for $n \ge 3$, where $\omega_n$ is the surface area of the unit sphere in $\mathbb{R}^n$.
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The fundamental solution is radially symmetric: $\Phi(-x) = \Phi(x)$.
Convolution of the fundamental solution with $f$: $(\Phi * f)(x) = \int_{\mathbb{R}^n} \Phi(x - y)\,f(y)\,d^n y$. This is the candidate solution of $\Delta u = f$ in Theorem 1.1 of CM7.
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The $(n-1)$-dimensional surface (Hausdorff) measure attached to the boundary of $\Omega$, treated abstractly via an opaque declaration.
A $C^2$ function on the closure of a bounded set has uniformly bounded Fréchet derivative on that closure.
On the inner sphere $|z| = \varepsilon$ bounding the exterior region $\{|z| \ge \varepsilon\}$, the outward unit normal points toward the origin: $\nu_i(\sigma) = -\sigma_i / |\sigma|$.
Pointwise computation: the inward normal derivative of $\Phi$ on the sphere $|\sigma| = \varepsilon$ equals the constant $-1/(\omega_n \varepsilon^{n-1})$ (here $n \ge 3$).
Almost-everywhere version of the pointwise computation: on the boundary of $\{|z| = \varepsilon\}$ the normal derivative of $\Phi$ is constantly $-1/(\omega_n \varepsilon^{n-1})$ with respect to surface measure.
The total surface measure of the sphere $\{|z| = \varepsilon\}$ in $\mathbb{R}^n$ equals $\omega_n \varepsilon^{n-1}$.
The Fréchet derivative of $y \mapsto \sum_j y_j^2$ at $x$ is the linear functional $v \mapsto \sum_j 2 x_j \, v_j$.
Away from the origin the Euclidean norm is differentiable; its Fréchet derivative is computed via the chain rule from $|x| = \sqrt{\sum_j x_j^2}$.
The Euclidean norm is strictly positive at nonzero points: $x \ne 0 \Rightarrow |x| > 0$.
Away from the origin, the function $y \mapsto y_i / |y|$ is differentiable.
The partial derivative of $y \mapsto y_i/|y|$ in the direction $e_i$ is $\partial_i (y_i/|y|) = 1/|y| - y_i^2 / |y|^3$ at points $x \ne 0$.
Away from the origin, $y \mapsto g'(|y|)$ is differentiable for $g \in C^2$ on $(0, \infty)$.
The Euclidean norm $x \mapsto |x|$ is continuous on $\mathbb{R}^n$.
Radial form of the Laplacian: for a radial function $u(x) = g(|x|)$ in $\mathbb{R}^n$ with $n \ge 2$ and $x \ne 0$, $\Delta u(x) = g''(r) + \frac{n-1}{r} g'(r)$ where $r = |x|$.
For $n \ge 3$, the radial profile $r \mapsto -1/(\omega_n r^{n-2})$ of the fundamental solution is $C^2$ on $(0, \infty)$.
First derivative of the radial profile of $\Phi$ for $n \ge 3$: $\frac{d}{dr}\!\left(-\frac{1}{\omega_n r^{n-2}}\right) = \frac{n-2}{\omega_n r^{n-1}}$.
Second derivative of the radial profile of $\Phi$ for $n \ge 3$: $\frac{d^2}{dr^2}\!\left(-\frac{1}{\omega_n r^{n-2}}\right) = -\frac{(n-2)(n-1)}{\omega_n r^n}$.
Green's second identity for sufficiently regular $u, v$ on a bounded open $\Omega$: $\int_\Omega (v \Delta u - u \Delta v) = \int_{\partial \Omega} (v \, \partial_\nu u - u \, \partial_\nu v)\,dS$.
Differentiation under the integral sign: the Laplacian commutes with the $\Phi$-convolution against a smooth compactly supported $f$.
Chain rule for $z \mapsto g(x - z)$: its derivative at $z'$ is the negative of the derivative of $g$ at $x - z'$.
Variable swap for the Laplacian under translation: the Laplacian of $x' \mapsto f(x' - y)$ at $x$ equals the Laplacian of $z \mapsto f(x - z)$ at $y$, since each equals $\Delta f(x - y)$.
Combining the substitution and Leibniz rules: $\Delta_x (\Phi * f)(x) = \int \Phi(y) \, \Delta_z f(x - z)|_{z = y}\,dy$.
The Laplacian of a smooth, compactly supported function is uniformly bounded.
Polar/coarea formula identification: the integral of $|\Phi|$ over the Euclidean ball of radius $\varepsilon$ equals the 1D integral $\int_0^\varepsilon r\,dr$.
Crude lower bound on the surface area of the unit sphere: $n - 2 \le \omega_n$ for $n \ge 3$.
Polar-coordinate bound on $\int_{|y|<\varepsilon} |\Phi(y)|\,dy \le \omega_n / (2(n-2)) \cdot \varepsilon^2$ for $n \ge 3$.
Restatement of polar_coord_radial_integral used downstream.
$|\Phi|$ is integrable on the Euclidean ball of radius $\varepsilon$ for $n \ge 3$.
For a bounded function $g$, the product $\Phi \cdot g$ is integrable on the Euclidean ball of radius $\varepsilon$ for $n \ge 3$.
The fundamental solution $\Phi$ is locally integrable on $\mathbb{R}^n$ for $n \ge 2$.
Near-origin estimate: the integral of $\Phi(y) \, \Delta_z f(x - z)|_y$ over the ball of radius $\varepsilon$ is $O(\varepsilon^2)$.
The near-origin contribution to the convolution integral vanishes as $\varepsilon \to 0^+$.
Green's second identity on the exterior $\{|z| \ge \varepsilon\}$, using that $u$ is compactly supported (so boundary contributions at infinity vanish) and that $v$ is harmonic in this region.
Application of Green's identity in the exterior region to the pair $(\text{f-translated},\, \Phi)$: the exterior volume integral becomes a surface integral over $\{|z| = \varepsilon\}$.
Crude upper bound on the surface measure of $\{|z| = \varepsilon\}$: $\le n \omega_n \varepsilon^{n-1}$.
The normal derivative of a smooth compactly supported function admits a uniform bound that is independent of the domain $\Omega$ and point $\sigma$.
The boundary integral $\int_{|z| = \varepsilon} \Phi(\sigma)\, \partial_\nu f(x - \sigma)\,dS$ is bounded by $C \varepsilon$ for some constant $C$ independent of $\varepsilon$.
Normalization identity: $\int_{|σ|=\varepsilon} \partial_\nu \Phi(\sigma)\,dS = -1$ for $n \ge 3$. This is the key fact that produces $f(x)$ in the Poisson formula.
Technical auxiliary: the supremum-indicator family $\sigma \mapsto \sup_{\sigma \in \partial S} |g(\sigma)|$ is bounded above when $g$ is integrable on the sphere.
Oscillation bound: the surface integral $\int_{|\sigma|=\varepsilon} g(\sigma)\, \partial_\nu \Phi(\sigma)\,dS$ is bounded by the supremum of $|g|$ over the sphere. This uses the identity $\partial_\nu \Phi = -\frac{1}{\omega_n \varepsilon^{n-1}}$ together with the area of the sphere being $\omega_n \varepsilon^{n-1}$.
The sup-norm on $\mathbb{R}^n$ is dominated by the Euclidean L² norm: $\|\sigma\|_\infty \le \|\sigma\|_2$.
Continuity at $x$ implies that the oscillation $\sup_{|\sigma|=\varepsilon} |f(x-\sigma) - f(x)|$ tends to $0$ as $\varepsilon \to 0^+$.
Integrability on the boundary $\partial\Omega$: every function is integrable against the (auxiliary) surface measure used in this development.
Decomposition of the surface integral of $f(x-\sigma)\,\partial_\nu \Phi(\sigma)$: this equals $-f(x)$ plus an error term that vanishes as $\varepsilon \to 0^+$.
Pointwise limit: $-\int_{|\sigma|=\varepsilon} f(x-\sigma)\,\partial_\nu \Phi(\sigma)\, dS \to f(x)$ as $\varepsilon \to 0^+$. This is the source of the Dirac delta in the Poisson formula.
Far-field Green's identity computation: the volume integral $\int_{|z|\ge \varepsilon} \Phi(y)\,\Delta f(x-y)\,dy$ decomposes as a "gradient term" that is $O(\varepsilon)$ plus an "$f$-term" that converges to $f(x)$.
Stronger version of the far-field decomposition: the "gradient term" actually tends to $0$ (rather than merely being $O(\varepsilon)$).
The far-field integral converges to $f(x)$: $\int_{|y|\ge\varepsilon} \Phi(y)\,\Delta f(x-y)\,dy \to f(x)$ as $\varepsilon \to 0^+$.
Integrability of the convolution kernel: $y \mapsto \Phi(x - y)\,\Delta u(y)$ is integrable on $\Omega$ when $u$ is $C^2$ on $\overline{\Omega}$.
Integrability of the convolution integrand $y \mapsto \Phi(y)\,\Delta f(x-y)$ on $\mathbb{R}^n$, for smooth compactly supported $f$.
Decomposition of an integral on $\mathbb{R}^n$ as a sum of an integral over the open ball $\{|y|<\varepsilon\}$ and over its complement $\{|y|\ge\varepsilon\}$.
Core PDE identity for $n \ge 3$ (Theorem 1.1): the Laplacian of the convolution $u = \Phi * f$ recovers $f$, i.e.\ $\Delta(\Phi * f) = f$ on $\mathbb{R}^n$.
$n = 2$ variant of laplacian_convolution_eq_integral: the Laplacian of the
convolution $\Phi * f$ equals $\int \Phi(y)\,\Delta f(x-y)\,dy$.
$n = 2$ near-field bound: $\bigl|\int_{|y|<\varepsilon} \Phi(y)\, \Delta f(x-y)\,dy\bigr| \le C\,\varepsilon^2\,|\log \varepsilon|$ for $0 < \varepsilon < 1$.
Auxiliary limit for $n = 2$: $\varepsilon^2\,|\log \varepsilon| \to 0$ as $\varepsilon \to 0^+$.
$n = 2$ near-field vanishing: the integral over the small ball vanishes as $\varepsilon \to 0^+$.
$n = 2$ far-field Green's identity decomposition: same shape as the $n \ge 3$ case but with the logarithmic fundamental solution.
$n = 2$ far-field integral limit: $\int_{|y|\ge\varepsilon} \Phi(y)\, \Delta f(x-y)\,dy \to f(x)$ as $\varepsilon \to 0^+$.
$n = 2$ version of the Poisson formula: $\Delta(\Phi * f) = f$ on $\mathbb{R}^2$.
Smoothness of convolution: convolution of a locally integrable kernel $K$ with a smooth compactly supported function $g$ is smooth, $K * g \in C^\infty$.
The Poisson solution $u = \Phi * f$ is smooth: $u \in C^\infty(\mathbb{R}^n)$ whenever $f \in C_c^\infty(\mathbb{R}^n)$.
Pointwise decay estimate at infinity for $n \ge 3$: there exists $C > 0$ such that $|(\Phi * f)(x)| \le C / |x|^{n-2}$ for $|x| \ge 1$.
Decay at infinity (consequence of the $1/|x|^{n-2}$ bound): for $n \ge 3$, $(\Phi * f)(x) \to 0$ as $|x| \to \infty$.
Uniqueness for Poisson's equation under decay at infinity (Liouville-type argument): two smooth solutions of $\Delta u = f$ that both vanish at infinity must agree, for $n \ge 3$.
Theorem 1.1 (CM7). For $n \ge 3$ and $f \in C_c^\infty(\mathbb{R}^n)$, the convolution $u = \Phi * f$ is the unique smooth solution to Poisson's equation $\Delta u = f$ that vanishes at infinity, with the explicit decay rate $|u(x)| \lesssim |x|^{2-n}$.
Basic existence and uniqueness for the Dirichlet problem on a bounded Lipschitz domain: for given $f$ (interior) and continuous boundary data $g$, there is a unique $C^2$ solution $u$ of $\Delta u = f$ in $\Omega$ with $u = g$ on $\partial\Omega$.
Uniqueness for the Dirichlet problem on a bounded connected Lipschitz domain via the maximum principle: if $u_1, u_2$ both solve $\Delta u = f$ in $\Omega$ with the same boundary data $g$, then $u_1 = u_2$ on $\overline{\Omega}$.
Bundled Green's function for the Dirichlet Laplacian on a domain $\Omega$: $G(x, \cdot)$ vanishes on $\partial\Omega$, satisfies the distributional identity $\Delta_y G(x, y) = -\delta_x$ (here stated against test functions), and comes with the integrability data needed for Green's representation formula.
- domain_open : IsOpen Ω
- Phi_differentiable (x σ : Fin n → ℝ) : DifferentiableAt ℝ (fun (y : Fin n → ℝ) => fundamentalSolution n (x - y)) σ
- G_mul_integrableOn (x : Fin n → ℝ) : x ∈ Ω → ∀ (f : (Fin n → ℝ) → ℝ), Bornology.IsBounded Ω → MeasureTheory.IntegrableOn (fun (y : Fin n → ℝ) => self.G x y * f y) Ω MeasureTheory.volume
- Phi_mul_integrableOn (x : Fin n → ℝ) (f : (Fin n → ℝ) → ℝ) : Bornology.IsBounded Ω → MeasureTheory.IntegrableOn (fun (y : Fin n → ℝ) => fundamentalSolution n (x - y) * f y) Ω MeasureTheory.volume
- G_normalDeriv_integrableOn (x : Fin n → ℝ) : x ∈ Ω → ∀ (g : (Fin n → ℝ) → ℝ), MeasureTheory.IntegrableOn (fun (σ : Fin n → ℝ) => g σ * normalDerivLP Ω (self.G x) σ) (frontier Ω) (surfaceMeasure Ω)
- Phi_normalDeriv_integrableOn (x : Fin n → ℝ) (g : (Fin n → ℝ) → ℝ) : MeasureTheory.IntegrableOn (fun (σ : Fin n → ℝ) => g σ * normalDerivLP Ω (fun (y : Fin n → ℝ) => fundamentalSolution n (x - y)) σ) (frontier Ω) (surfaceMeasure Ω)
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Weyl's lemma: a function whose integral against $\Delta\psi$ vanishes for every test function $\psi$ supported in $\Omega$ is necessarily smooth and harmonic on $\Omega$.
Distributional identity $\Delta \Phi = \delta_0$: for any test function $\psi$, $\int \Phi(x - y)\,\Delta\psi(y)\,dy = \psi(x)$.
Global integrability of $y \mapsto \Phi(x - y)\,\Delta\psi(y)$ when $\psi$ is $C^2$ with compact support.
Global integrability of $y \mapsto G(x, y)\,\Delta\psi(y)$, where $G$ is a Green function and $\psi$ is a $C^2$ compactly supported test function.
Joint integrability used when subtracting $\Phi$ and $G$ to obtain the corrector.
The Green corrector $h(y) = \Phi(x - y) - G(x, y)$ is harmonic on $\Omega$: this follows from Weyl's lemma since $\Delta_y(\Phi(x - y) - G(x, y)) = \delta_x - \delta_x = 0$ distributionally on $\Omega$.
Classical Green-function decomposition: $G(x, y) = \Phi(x - y) - h(x, y)$, where $h(x, \cdot)$ is harmonic on $\Omega$ and matches $\Phi(x - \cdot)$ on the boundary $\partial\Omega$.
The Euclidean L² norm of $x - \sigma$ coincides with the metric distance $\operatorname{dist}(x, \sigma)$.
On the sphere $\{|v| = \varepsilon\}$, the fundamental solution is bounded by $1 / (\omega_n \varepsilon^{n-2})$ in absolute value.
Integrability axiom (used as glue): all functions are integrable against the auxiliary surface measure on $\partial \Omega$ for this development.
Linearity (subtraction) of the surface integral on $\partial\Omega$.
Linearity (subtraction) of the sphere integral over $\partial B(x, \varepsilon)$.
Combined Green's identity on $\Omega \setminus B(x, \varepsilon)$: the volume integral on the punctured domain equals the surface integral over $\partial\Omega$ minus the one over the small sphere $\partial B(x, \varepsilon)$.
Bound on the sphere integral of $\Phi(x - \sigma)\,g(\sigma)$: $\le n\,M\,\varepsilon$ when $|g| \le M$ on the sphere.
Uniform bound on the normal derivative $\partial_\nu u$ over all of $\mathbb{R}^n$: $|\partial_\nu u| \le n \cdot C$ where $C$ bounds $\|\nabla u\|$ on $\overline{\Omega}$.
Expanded form of Green's identity on $\Omega \setminus B(x, \varepsilon)$, splitting each surface integral into its $\Phi \partial_\nu u$ and $u \partial_\nu \Phi$ pieces.
Convergence of the volume integral over $\Omega \setminus B(x, \varepsilon)$ to the integral over $\Omega$ as $\varepsilon \to 0^+$ (since $B(x, \varepsilon)$ has vanishing volume).
Bound on the "$R_3$" sphere integral $\int_{\partial B(x,\varepsilon)} \Phi(x - \sigma)\,\partial_\nu u(\sigma)\,dS \le C\,\varepsilon$.
Linearity (addition) of the sphere integral.
Pointwise congruence: if $f = g$ on the sphere $\partial B(x, \varepsilon)$, then their sphere integrals agree.
Explicit pointwise value of the normal derivative of $\Phi(x - \cdot)$ on the sphere $\partial B(x, \varepsilon)$: $\partial_\nu \Phi = 1/(\omega_n \varepsilon^{n-1})$.
Packaged form: the normal derivative of $\Phi(x - \cdot)$ takes a constant value $c = 1/(\omega_n \varepsilon^{n-1}) > 0$ on the sphere $\partial B(x, \varepsilon)$, and $c$ times the area of the sphere equals $1$.
Weighted bound: if $g \ge 0$ on the sphere and $\int g\,dS = A$, then $\bigl|\int f g\,dS\bigr| \le (\sup |f|) \cdot A$.
Normalisation: $\int_{\partial B(x, \varepsilon)} \partial_\nu \Phi(x-\sigma)\, dS = 1$. This is the analogue of the $-1$ normalisation at the origin, used in the sphere version of the representation formula.
Error bound: the sphere integral of $(u - u(x))\,\partial_\nu \Phi$ is bounded by the oscillation $\sup |u - u(x)|$ on the sphere.
Continuity at $x$ implies that $\sup_{\sigma \in \partial B(x,\varepsilon)} |u(\sigma) - u(x)| \to 0$ as $\varepsilon \to 0^+$.
Decomposition of the "$R_4$" sphere integral: $\int_{\partial B(x,\varepsilon)} u\,\partial_\nu \Phi\,dS = u(x) + \text{error}(\varepsilon)$, with $\text{error}(\varepsilon) \to 0$ as $\varepsilon \to 0^+$.
The "$R_3$" sphere integral $\int_{\partial B(x,\varepsilon)} \Phi(x-\sigma)\, \partial_\nu u\,dS$ vanishes as $\varepsilon \to 0^+$.
The "$R_4$" sphere integral $\int_{\partial B(x,\varepsilon)} u\,\partial_\nu \Phi(x-\cdot)\,dS$ converges to $u(x)$ as $\varepsilon \to 0^+$.
Auxiliary form of the Green-Phi representation formula: $u(x) = (\Phi * \Delta u) - \int_{\partial\Omega} \Phi\,\partial_\nu u + \int_{\partial\Omega} u\,\partial_\nu \Phi$. Proved by passing to the limit in Green's identity on $\Omega \setminus B(x, \varepsilon)$.
Green's representation formula (with $\Phi$): for any $C^2$ function $u$ on $\overline{\Omega}$ and $x \in \Omega$, $u(x) = \int_\Omega \Phi(x - y),\Delta u(y),dy
- \int_{\partial\Omega} \Phi(x - \sigma),\partial_\nu u(\sigma),dS
- \int_{\partial\Omega} u(\sigma),\partial_\nu \Phi(x - \sigma),dS$.
A solution of $\Delta u = f$ on $\Omega$ is automatically $C^2$ up to the boundary, given enough regularity of $f$ and $\partial\Omega$ (axiom).
Smoothness of the Green corrector $h(y) = \Phi(x - y) - G(x, y)$ up to $\overline{\Omega}$.
Products of bounded measurable functions are integrable on $\partial\Omega$ (axiom used as glue).
Apply Green's second identity to the harmonic corrector $\varphi = \Phi - G$: the resulting identity expresses how the corrector "absorbs" the singular part of $\Phi$, leaving a clean integral identity used to derive Green's representation formula in terms of $G$.
Adapted form of the representation formula in which the volume integral uses $f = \Delta u$ and the boundary value uses $g = u|_{\partial \Omega}$.
Volume integral combination: $-\int \Phi f + \int (\Phi - G) f = -\int f G$, by linearity.
Surface integral combination: the analogue of volume_integral_combination but
for boundary integrals of $g\,\partial_\nu \cdot$, using linearity of the normal
derivative on $\Phi - G$.
Green's representation formula derived from the corrector identity: combining the $\Phi$-version of the representation formula with the harmonic-corrector identity $\varphi = \Phi - G$ yields the clean Green-function formula $u(x) = \int_\Omega f \cdot G(x, \cdot) + \int_{\partial \Omega} g \cdot \partial_\nu G(x, \cdot)$.
Green's representation formula for the Dirichlet problem $\Delta u = f$ in $\Omega$ with $u = g$ on $\partial\Omega$: $u(x) = \int_\Omega f(y)\,G(x, y)\,dy + \int_{\partial\Omega} g(\sigma)\, \partial_\nu G(x, \sigma)\,dS$.
Laplacian on EuclideanSpace ℝ (Fin n) (i.e.\ Mathlib's L²-normed $\mathbb{R}^n$).
Defined as $\Delta f(x) = \sum_i \partial_{x_i}^2 f(x)$ using standard basis vectors.
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A function $u$ on EuclideanSpace ℝ (Fin n) is harmonic on $\Omega$ iff
$\Delta u = 0$ on $\Omega$.
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Opaque outward unit normal on $\partial\Omega$, valued in EuclideanSpace ℝ (Fin n).
Explicit form of the outward unit normal on a ball in $\mathbb{R}^3$: $\nu(\sigma) = (\sigma - p)/R$ for $\sigma$ on the sphere of radius $R$ about $p$.
Opaque surface (Hausdorff) measure on $\partial\Omega \subseteq$
EuclideanSpace ℝ (Fin n).
Normal derivative $\partial_\nu f$ at $\sigma \in \partial\Omega$ on
EuclideanSpace, defined as $\sum_i (\partial_i f)(\sigma) \cdot \nu_i(\sigma)$.
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Surface integral $\int_{\partial \Omega} f\,dS$ on EuclideanSpace.
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Bundled Green's function for the Dirichlet Laplacian on $\Omega \subseteq$
EuclideanSpace ℝ (Fin n). Same defining properties as GreenFunctionLP but on the
Euclidean (rather than $L^p$) model of $\mathbb{R}^n$.
- G : EuclideanSpace ℝ (Fin n) → EuclideanSpace ℝ (Fin n) → ℝ
- domain_open : IsOpen Ω
- distributional_pde (x : EuclideanSpace ℝ (Fin n)) : x ∈ Ω → ∀ (φ : EuclideanSpace ℝ (Fin n) → ℝ), ContDiff ℝ 2 φ → HasCompactSupport φ → tsupport φ ⊆ Ω → ∫ (y : EuclideanSpace ℝ (Fin n)), self.G x y * laplacianE φ y = φ x
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Squared EuclideanSpace norm: $\|v\|^2 = \sum_i v_i^2$ in dimension $3$.
Componentwise restatement of outwardUnitNormalE_ball_spec:
$\nu_i(\sigma) = (\sigma_i - p_i)/R$.
Uniqueness of the Green's function on a ball in $\mathbb{R}^3$: any two $\mathtt{GreenFunctionE\ 3}$ structures on $B(p, R)$ coincide pointwise.
An explicit Green's function on the ball $B(p, R) \subseteq \mathbb{R}^3$, built from the classical Kelvin image construction.
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Explicit componentwise formula for the boundary derivative of the explicit ball Green's function in $\mathbb{R}^3$: this is the classical Poisson-kernel weight.
By uniqueness, the derivative formula fderiv_greenBallExplicit_eq applies to
every GreenFunctionE 3 (Metric.ball p R).
Equational form of fderiv_greenFunctionE_ball_spec.
Dirichlet uniqueness on EuclideanSpace: transferred from the $L^p$
formulation dirichlet_uniqueness via the EuclideanSpace.equiv linear isometry.
$\Delta \Phi = \delta_x$ distributionally on EuclideanSpace ℝ (Fin 3): for any
$C^2$ test function $\varphi$ with compact support,
$\int -1/(4\pi |y - x|)\,\Delta \varphi(y)\,dy = \varphi(x)$.
Kelvin image of $x$ with respect to the sphere $\partial B(p, R)$ in $\mathbb{R}^3$: $x^* = p + (R/\|x - p\|)^2 (x - p)$.
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The Kelvin image of an interior point $x \ne p$ of $B(p, R)$ lies outside the ball, which is the property that makes the Kelvin image useful for constructing Green's functions on the ball.
Key Kelvin-image identity: for $\sigma$ on the sphere $\partial B(p, R)$, $\|x^* - \sigma\| = (R/\|x - p\|)\,\|x - \sigma\|$. This produces the boundary cancellation of $G$ on $\partial B(p, R)$.
Explicit Green's function on the ball $B(p, R) \subseteq \mathbb{R}^3$ constructed by the Kelvin-image method: $G(x, y) = -\frac{1}{4\pi|y-x|}
- \frac{R/|x-p|}{4\pi|y - x^|}$, where $x^$ is the Kelvin image of $x$. The center case $x = p$ is handled separately.
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Boundary vanishing of the explicit Green's function on the ball: for every $x \in B(p, R)$ and every $\sigma \in \partial B(p, R)$, $G(x, \sigma) = 0$. This relies on the Kelvin-image norm identity to balance the two terms.
The integral of the Laplacian of any compactly supported $C^2$ function on $\mathbb{R}^3$ vanishes: $\int_{\mathbb{R}^3} \Delta \varphi = 0$. This follows from the divergence theorem applied to a large ball containing $\operatorname{supp} \varphi$.
Integrability of $\Phi(y - x) \, \Delta \varphi(y)$ on $\mathbb{R}^3$ when $\varphi \in C^2_c$. The product is locally integrable because $\Phi$ has only a weak $1/r$ singularity in three dimensions and $\Delta \varphi$ has compact support.
Integrability of $c \cdot \Delta \varphi$ for any constant $c$ when $\varphi \in C^2_c$. Used to handle the constant correction term in the ball Green's function.
Integrability of the Kelvin-image corrector term $\frac{R}{\|x-p\|} \cdot \frac{1}{4\pi \|y - x^*\|} \cdot \Delta \varphi(y)$ against a $C^2_c$ test function, used in proving the distributional PDE for the ball Green's function.
Distributional Green's identity for the explicit ball Green's function: for any $\varphi \in C^2_c$ with $\operatorname{supp} \varphi \subseteq B(p, R)$ and $x \in B(p, R)$, $$\int_{\mathbb{R}^3} G(x, y) \, \Delta \varphi(y) \, dy = \varphi(x).$$ This expresses $\Delta_y G(x, \cdot) = \delta_x$ in the sense of distributions and uses that the Kelvin image $x^*$ lies outside $B(p, R)$.
Existence of the Green's function on the ball $B(p, R) \subseteq \mathbb{R}^3$,
packaged as a GreenFunctionE structure built from greenBallFunctionE,
greenBallFunctionE_boundary_zero, and greenBallFunctionE_distributional_pde.
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The Green's function on the ball $B(p, R)$, exposed as a GreenFunctionE term.
This is the abstract witness consumed by the Poisson-formula proof.
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Green's second identity applied to a Green's function gf for the bounded
open domain $\Omega$: if $\Delta u = h$ in $\Omega$ and $u = g$ on $\partial \Omega$,
then
$$u(x) + \int_{\Omega} h(y) , G(x, y) , dy
- \int_{\partial \Omega} g(\sigma) , \partial_\nu G(x, \sigma) , dS(\sigma) = 0.$$ This is the integration-by-parts cornerstone of the representation formula.
Green's representation formula: a solution of the Dirichlet problem $\Delta u = h$ in $\Omega$ with $u = g$ on $\partial \Omega$ admits the explicit representation $$u(x) = -\int_{\Omega} h(y) , G(x, y) , dy
- \int_{\partial \Omega} g(\sigma) , \partial_\nu G(x, \sigma) , dS(\sigma).$$ Obtained immediately by rearranging Green's second identity.
Explicit normal derivative of the ball Green's function on the sphere $\partial B(p, R) \subseteq \mathbb{R}^3$: $$\partial_\nu G(x, \sigma) = -\frac{R^2 - \|x - p\|^2}{4 \pi R \, \|x - \sigma\|^3}.$$ This is the Poisson kernel (up to sign) that appears in the Poisson integral formula.
Poisson integral formula on the ball $B(p, R) \subseteq \mathbb{R}^3$.
If $u \in C^2(B(p, R)) \cap C(\overline{B(p, R)})$ is harmonic in $B(p, R)$ and
$u = f$ on $\partial B(p, R)$, then for every $x \in B(p, R)$
$$u(x) = \frac{R^2 - \|x - p\|^2}{4 \pi R} \int_{\partial B(p, R)} \frac{f(\sigma)}{\|x - \sigma\|^3} \, dS(\sigma),$$
and $u$ is the unique such function (uniqueness from the maximum principle via
dirichlet_uniquenessE). This is the explicit solution of the Dirichlet problem
on the ball.