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We study the regularity of Radon measures $\mu$ which satisfy that there exists a function $h_\mu$ in $H^1(\Omega)$, stationary harmonic such that $\Delta h_\mu =\mu$ in $\Omega$ (here $\Omega$ is an open set of $\mathbb{R}^2$). Such…

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