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Fundamental solutions and surface distributions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

R. A. Adams
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, The University of British Columbia
G. F. Roach
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, The University of British Columbia
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When studying the solutions of elliptic boundary value problems in a bounded, smoothly bounded domain DRn we often encounter the formula

where u(x)∈C2(D)∩C′() is a solution of the second order self-adjoint elliptic equation

and denotes differentiation along the inward normal to ∂D at x∈∂D.

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Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1969

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