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Harmonic functions vanishing on a cone

Analysis of PDEs 2019-07-31 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP Number Theory

Abstract

Let ZZ be a quadratic harmonic cone in R3\mathbb{R}^{3}. We consider the family H(Z)\mathcal{H}(Z) of all harmonic functions vanishing on ZZ. Is H(Z)\mathcal{H}(Z) finite or infinite dimensional? Some aspects of this question go back to as early as the 19th century. To the best of our knowledge, no nondegenerate quadratic harmonic cone exists for which the answer to this question is known. In this paper we study the right circular harmonic cone and give evidence that the family of harmonic functions vanishing on it is, maybe surprisingly, finite dimensional. We introduce an arithmetic method to handle this question which extends ideas of Holt and Ille and is reminiscent of Hensel's Lemma.

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@article{arxiv.1703.09905,
  title  = {Harmonic functions vanishing on a cone},
  author = {Dan Mangoubi and Adi Weller-Weiser},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.09905},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

19 pages; changes in acknowledgments and referee comments incorporated

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