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The knowledge of the normal potential and related ellipsoidal quantities are not enough to properly treat the problem of relating different types of geodetic heights.
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Note: on historical ground Runge proved a similar theorem for analytic functions; the theorem was extended to harmonic functions by T. Krarup.
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Sansò, F., Reguzzoni, M., Barzaghi, R. (2019). The Anomalous Potential and Its Determination. In: Geodetic Heights. Springer Geophysics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10454-2_4
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