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3.30 pm, Seminar Hall A test for harmonicity E.K. Narayanan Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. 25-03-15 Abstract Morera's theorem in complex analysis says that a continuous function, whose integrals over closed curves in a disc vanish, is holomorphic. Questions regarding the family of curves required to test holomorphicty led to a lot of research in the recent past. Considering holomorphic functions as solutions to a PDE, lead to similar questions for harmonicity. Consider the unit disc in the complex plane and its translates by points in [0, 1]. Let F be a smooth enough function defined in a neighborhood of the union of these discs. If we assume that F extends to a harmonic function from the boundary of these discs to the interior (which always happens via the Poisson integral, but notice that F need not agree with this extension inside the disc) together with a condition on the normal derivatives, then we show that F is actually harmonic. If time permits, generalizations to higher order PDE will also be discussed.
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