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- From: ap@levangerhs.no (Andrei Prasolov)
- Subject: Elementary solution needed: harmonic bi-sequences
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.170048.26459@ugle.unit.no>
- Sender: news@ugle.unit.no (NetNews Administrator)
- Organization: Hogskolen i Levanger
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 17:00:48 GMT
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- There is a problem which seems to have a very simple solution.
- I remember that I heard one in my youth. That solution used
- the epsilon-delta language only. However, I cannot recall that.
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- DEF. Let`s call a bi-sequence (a(i,j), i,j from Z) HARMONIC if for all i,j
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- (*) a(i,j) = 1/4 (a(i,j+1) + a(i,j-1) + a(i+1,j) + a(i-1,j)).
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- PROBLEM. Prove that any bounded (|a(i,j)| < C) harmonic bi-sequence is constant.
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- I know the proof which uses Fourier-transform of generalized functions
- (distributions):
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- Let f(x,y) = Sum_i,j(delta(x-i,y-j)).
- Than f is a generalized function of polynomial (of degree zero) growth,
- so its Fourier-transform F(x,y) has also polynomial growth and is 2pi periodical.
- (*) becomes:
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- (**) (2cos(x) + 2cos(y) - 4) F(x,y) = 0.
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- It follows that F(x,y)=0 unless x=2k pi and y=2l pi, k, l from Z. So F, being
- periodical, can be represented by
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- F(x,y) = Sum_i,j(ksi(x - 2 i pi, y - 2 j pi))
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- where ksi is a finite sum of delta-function and its derivatives,
- therefore a(i,j) is a polynomial of i,j and, being bounded, is constant.
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- DOES ANYBODY KNOW AN ELEMENTARY PROOF?
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- Thanks in advance.
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