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Bounded Harmonic Functions

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Part of the book series: Graduate Texts in Mathematics ((GTM,volume 137))

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Liouville’s Theorem in complex analysis states that a bounded holo-morphic function on C is constant. A similar result holds for harmonic functions on R n. The simple proof given below is taken from Edward Nelson’s paper [7], which is one of the rare mathematics papers not containing a single mathematical symbol.

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Axler, S., Bourdon, P., Ramey, W. (1992). Bounded Harmonic Functions. In: Harmonic Function Theory. Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol 137. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-21527-1_2

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