The mean-value property of continuous weakly harmonic functions #
Let E be a nontrivial finite-dimensional real inner product space with an additive Haar measure
μ, U ⊆ E open, and u : E → F continuous on U and weakly harmonic in U:
∫ Δχ • u ∂μ = 0 for every smooth χ with compact support in U. If closedBall x₀ R ⊆ U,
then u x₀ is the average of u over the sphere of radius R about x₀:
∫ θ ∈ S, u (x₀ + R • θ) ∂μ.toSphere = μ.toSphere(S) • u x₀
(integral_toSphere_eq_of_weaklyHarmonic).
As a consequence, integrating against a radial kernel k (‖y‖) supported in closedBall 0 R
reproduces u x₀ (integral_radial_smul_eq_of_weaklyHarmonic):
∫ k ‖y‖ • u (x₀ + y) ∂μ = (∫ k ‖y‖ ∂μ) • u x₀.
The argument (TauCeti) #
Write Φ s = ∫ θ ∈ S, u (s • θ) ∂μ.toSphere. For a test function ψ on (0, R), the radial
test function χ x = ρ (‖x‖²), with ρ the primitive of t ↦ ψ (√t) / (√t) ^ n, has
Δχ x = 4 ‖x‖² ρ'' (‖x‖²) + 2 n ρ' (‖x‖²). In polar coordinates the weak harmonicity
∫ Δχ • u = 0 becomes ∫ 2 ψ' • Φ = 0, so Φ is constant on (0, R) by the du Bois-Reymond
lemma, and Φ R = Φ 0 = μ.toSphere(S) • u 0 by continuity. No divergence theorem is needed.
Provenance #
Pool port: imports relocated under LeanPool.ViscositySolutionTheory; original
mathematical namespaces and copyright retained; checked with Lean/Mathlib v4.34.0.
- Upstream: TauCeti, https://github.com/TauCetiProject/TauCeti
- Path:
TauCeti/Analysis/InnerProductSpace/Harmonic/MeanValue.lean - Commit: 91f66a0514e6523efdccddb9e35fb82c96dd6405 (2026-09-24)
- License: Apache-2.0. Upstream
NOTICE: none. - Upstream notice:
Copyright (c) 2026 The Tau Ceti contributors. All rights reserved.; upstream authors: The Tau Ceti contributors. - Extent:
integral_deriv_smul_integral_toSphere_eq_zeroandintegral_toSphere_eq_of_harmonicOnNhd_zero(adapted),HarmonicOnNhd.integral_toSphere_eq(adapted asintegral_toSphere_eq_of_weaklyHarmonic). - Changes: ported from Lean v4.34.0-rc2 to Lean/Mathlib v4.30.0;
module/public importremoved; namespaceTauCeti→ViscositySolns.Analysis. The hypothesis "uharmonic on a neighbourhood of the closed ball" is replaced by "ucontinuous and weakly harmonic on an open set containing the closed ball" (upstream derives weak harmonicity from harmonicity viaHarmonicOnNhd.integral_laplacian_smul_eq_zero; here it is the hypothesis), test functions𝓓(Ω, ℝ)are replaced by smooth compactly supported functions, and the recentring uses translation invariance of the weak formulation instead of upstream'sharmonicOnNhd_comp_add_right_closedBall_zero_iff. The ball forms are not ported. New (W. M. Feldman):weaklyHarmonic_comp_add_right,integral_radial_smul_eq_of_weaklyHarmonic.
u is weakly harmonic in U (for the measure μ): ∫ Δχ • u ∂μ = 0 for every smooth
χ : E → ℝ with compact support in U.
Equations
- ViscositySolns.Analysis.WeaklyHarmonicOn μ u U = ∀ (χ : E → ℝ), ContDiff ℝ (↑⊤) χ → HasCompactSupport χ → tsupport χ ⊆ U → ∫ (x : E), Laplacian.laplacian χ x • u x ∂μ = 0
Instances For
Weak harmonicity is translation invariant.
The distributional derivative of the sphere integrals s ↦ ∫ θ, u (s • θ) ∂μ.toSphere of a
continuous weakly harmonic function vanishes on (0, R): ∫ ψ' • Φ = 0 for every test function
ψ on (0, R).
The mean-value property on spheres about the origin.
The mean-value property on spheres for a continuous weakly harmonic function: if
closedBall x₀ R ⊆ U and 0 ≤ R, the integral of u over the sphere of radius R about x₀,
parametrized by the unit sphere with the surface measure μ.toSphere, is the total surface
measure times u x₀.
Reproduction by radial kernels. If u is continuous and weakly harmonic in U,
closedBall x₀ R ⊆ U, and k : ℝ → ℝ is continuous and vanishes on (R, ∞), then
∫ k ‖y‖ • u (x₀ + y) ∂μ = (∫ k ‖y‖ ∂μ) • u x₀.