ArticleOriginal scientific text
Title
Harmonic functions in a cylinder with normal derivatives vanishing on the boundary
Authors 1, 1
Affiliations
- Department of Mathematics and Informatics, Chiba University, Chiba 263-8522, Japan
Abstract
A harmonic function in a cylinder with the normal derivative vanishing on the boundary is expanded into an infinite sum of certain fundamental harmonic functions. The growth condition under which it is reduced to a finite sum of them is given.
Keywords
cylinder, Neumann problem, harmonic functions
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