Let R and R + be the set of all real numbers and the set of all positive real numbers respectively. We denote the n-dimensional Euclidean space by R n ( n ≥ 2 ). A point in R n is denoted by P = ( X , x n ) , where X = ( x 1 , x 2 , … , x n − 1 ) . The Euclidean distance between two points P and Q in R n is denoted by | P − Q | . Also | P − O | with the origin O of R n is simply denoted by | P | . The boundary and the closure of a set S in R n are denoted by ∂S and S ¯ respectively.

We introduce a system of spherical coordinates ( r , Θ ) , Θ = ( θ 1 , θ 2 , … , θ n − 1 ) , in R n which are related to Cartesian coordinates ( x 1 , x 2 , … , x n − 1 , x n ) by x n = r cos θ 1 .

The unit sphere and the upper half unit sphere in R n are denoted by S n − 1 and S + n − 1 , respectively. For simplicity, a point ( 1 , Θ ) on S n − 1 and the set { Θ ; ( 1 , Θ ) ∈ Ω } for a set Ω, Ω ⊂ S n − 1 , are often identified with Θ and Ω, respectively. For two sets Ξ ⊂ R + and Ω ⊂ S n − 1 , the set { ( r , Θ ) ∈ R n ; r ∈ Ξ , ( 1 , Θ ) ∈ Ω } in R n is simply denoted by Ξ × Ω .

For P ∈ R n and r > 0 , let B ( P , r ) denote an open ball with a center at P and radius r in R n . S r = ∂ B ( O , r ) . By C n ( Ω ) , we denote the set R + × Ω in R n with the domain Ω on S n − 1 . We call it a cone. We denote the sets I × Ω and I × ∂ Ω with an interval on R by C n ( Ω ; I ) and S n ( Ω ; I ) . By S n ( Ω ; r ) we denote C n ( Ω ) ∩ S r . By S n ( Ω ) we denote S n ( Ω ; ( 0 , + ∞ ) ) which is ∂ C n ( Ω ) − { O } . We denote the ( n − 1 ) -dimensional volume elements induced by the Euclidean metric on S r by d S r .

Let A a denote the class of nonnegative radial potentials a ( P ) , i.e., 0 ≤ a ( P ) = a ( r ) , P = ( r , Θ ) ∈ C n ( Ω ) , such that a ∈ L loc b ( C n ( Ω ) ) with some b > n / 2 if n ≥ 4 and with b = 2 if n = 2 or n = 3 .

This article is devoted to the stationary Schrödinger equation

Sch a u ( P ) = − Δ u ( P ) + a ( P ) u ( P ) = 0 ,

where P ∈ C n ( Ω ) , Δ is the Laplace operator and a ∈ A a . These solutions called a-harmonic functions or generalized harmonic functions are associated with the operator Sch a . Note that they are (classical) harmonic functions in the case a = 0 . Under these assumptions, the operator Sch a can be extended in the usual way from the space C 0 ∞ ( C n ( Ω ) ) to an essentially self-adjoint operator on L 2 ( C n ( Ω ) ) (see 1 2 3 ). We will denote it Sch a as well. This last one has a Green’s function G ( Ω , a ) ( P , Q ) . Here G ( Ω , a ) ( P , Q ) is positive on C n ( Ω ) and its inner normal derivative ∂ G ( Ω , a ) ( P , Q ) / ∂ n Q ≥ 0 . We denote this derivative by P ( Ω , a ) ( P , Q ) , which is called the Poisson a-kernel with respect to C n ( Ω ) . We remark that G ( Ω , 0 ) ( P , Q ) and P ( Ω , 0 ) ( P , Q ) are the Green’s function and Poisson kernel of the Laplacian in C n ( Ω ) respectively.

Given a domain D ⊂ R n and a continuous function u on ∂ ( D ) , we say that h is a solution of the Dirichlet problem for the Schrödinger operator on D with u if Sch a h = 0 in D and

lim P ∈ D , P → Q h ( P ) = u ( Q )

for every Q ∈ ∂ ( D ) . Note that h is a solution of the classical Dirichlet problem for the Laplacian in the case a = 0 .

Let Δ ∗ be a Laplace-Beltrami operator (the spherical part of the Laplace) on Ω ⊂ S n − 1 and λ j ( j = 1 , 2 , 3 , … , 0 < λ 1 < λ 2 ≤ λ 3 ≤ ⋯ ) be the eigenvalues of the eigenvalue problem for Δ ∗ on Ω (see, e.g., 4 , p. 41])

Corresponding eigenfunctions are denoted by φ j v ( 1 ≤ v ≤ v j ), where v j is the multiplicity of λ j . We set λ 0 = 0 , norm the eigenfunctions in L 2 ( Ω ) and φ 1 = φ 11 > 0 . Then there exist two positive constants d 1 and d 2 such that

d 1 δ ( P ) ≤ φ 1 ( Θ ) ≤ d 2 δ ( P )

for P = ( 1 , Θ ) ∈ Ω (see Courant and Hilbert 5 ), where δ ( P ) = inf Q ∈ ∂ C n ( Ω ) | P − Q | .

In order to ensure the existences of λ j ( j = 1 , 2 , 3 , … ). We put a rather strong assumption on Ω: if n ≥ 3 , then Ω is a C 2 , α -domain ( 0 < α < 1 ) on S n − 1 surrounded by a finite number of mutually disjoint closed hypersurfaces (e.g., see 6 , pp. 88-89] for the definition of C 2 , α -domain). Then φ j v ∈ C 2 ( Ω ¯ ) ( j = 1 , 2 , 3 , … , 1 ≤ v ≤ v j ) and ∂ φ 1 / ∂ n > 0 on ∂Ω (here and below, ∂ / ∂ n denotes differentiation along the interior normal).

Hence well-known estimates (see, e.g., 7 , p. 14]) imply the following inequality:

∑ v = 1 v j φ j v ( Θ ) ∂ φ j v ( Φ ) ∂ n Φ ≤ M ( n ) j 2 n − 1 ,

where the symbol M ( n ) denotes a constant depending only on n.

Let V j ( r ) and W j ( r ) stand, respectively, for the increasing and nonincreasing, as r → + ∞ , solutions of the equation

− Q ″ ( r ) − n − 1 r Q ′ ( r ) + ( λ j r 2 + a ( r ) ) Q ( r ) = 0 , 0 < r < ∞ ,

normalized under the condition V j ( 1 ) = W j ( 1 ) = 1 .

We shall also consider the class B a , consisting of the potentials a ∈ A a such that there exists a finite limit lim r → ∞ r 2 a ( r ) = k ∈ [ 0 , ∞ ) ; moreover, r − 1 | r 2 a ( r ) − k | ∈ L ( 1 , ∞ ) . If a ∈ B a , then the solutions of Equation (1.1) are continuous (see 8 ).

In the rest of the article, we assume that a ∈ B a and we shall suppress this assumption for simplicity. Further, we use the standard notations u + = max ( u , 0 ) , u − = − min ( u , 0 ) , [ d ] is the integer part of d and d = [ d ] + { d } , where d is a positive real number.

Denote

ι j , k ± = 2 − n ± ( n − 2 ) 2 + 4 ( k + λ j ) 2 ( j = 0 , 1 , 2 , 3 , … ) .

It is known (see 9 ) that in the case under consideration the solutions to Equation (1.4) have the asymptotics

V j ( r ) ∼ d 3 r ι j , k + , W j ( r ) ∼ d 4 r ι j , k − , as r → ∞ ,

where d 3 and d 4 are some positive constants.

If a ∈ A a , it is known that the following expansion for the Green function G ( Ω , a ) ( P , Q ) (see 10 , Ch. 11], 1 11 )

G ( Ω , a ) ( P , Q ) = ∑ j = 0 ∞ 1 χ ′ ( 1 ) V j ( min ( r , t ) ) W j ( max ( r , t ) ) ( ∑ v = 1 v j φ j v ( Θ ) φ j v ( Φ ) ) ,

where P = ( r , Θ ) Q = ( t , Φ ) r ≠ t and χ ′ ( s ) = w ( W 1 ( r ) , V 1 ( r ) ) | r = s , is their Wronskian. The series converges uniformly if either r ≤ s t or t ≤ s r ( 0 < s < 1 ).

For a nonnegative integer m and two points P = ( r , Θ ) , Q = ( t , Φ ) ∈ C n ( Ω ) , we put

K ( Ω , a , m ) ( P , Q ) = { 0 if 0 < t < 1 , K ˜ ( Ω , a , m ) ( P , Q ) if 1 ≤ t < ∞ ,

where

K ˜ ( Ω , a , m ) ( P , Q ) = ∑ j = 0 m 1 χ ′ ( 1 ) V j ( r ) W j ( t ) ( ∑ v = 1 v j φ j v ( Θ ) φ j v ( Φ ) ) .

We introduce another function of P = ( r , Θ ) ∈ C n ( Ω ) and Q = ( t , Φ ) ∈ C n ( Ω )

G ( Ω , a , m ) ( P , Q ) = G ( Ω , a ) ( P , Q ) − K ( Ω , a , m ) ( P , Q ) .

The generalized Poisson kernel P ( Ω , a , m ) ( P , Q ) ( P = ( r , Θ ) ∈ C n ( Ω ) , Q = ( t , Φ ) ∈ S n ( Ω ) ) with respect to C n ( Ω ) is defined by

P ( Ω , a , m ) ( P , Q ) = ∂ G ( Ω , a , m ) ( P , Q ) ∂ n Q .

In fact,

P ( Ω , a , 0 ) ( P , Q ) = P ( Ω , a ) ( P , Q ) .

We remark that the kernel function P ( Ω , 0 , m ) ( P , Q ) coincides with the one in Yoshida and Miyamoto 12 (see 10 , Ch. 11]).

Put

U ( Ω , a , m ; u ) ( P ) = ∫ S n ( Ω ) P ( Ω , a , m ) ( P , Q ) u ( Q ) d σ Q ,

where u ( Q ) is a continuous function on ∂ C n ( Ω ) and d σ Q is a surface area element on S n ( Ω ) .

With regard to classical solutions of the Dirichlet problem for the Laplacian, Yoshida and Miyamoto 12 , Theorem 1] proved the following result.

Theorem A If u is a continuous function on ∂ C n ( Ω ) satisfying ∫ S n ( Ω ) | u ( t , Φ ) | 1 + t ι m + 1 , 0 + + n − 1 d σ Q < ∞ , then U ( Ω , 0 , m ; u ) ( P ) is a classical solution of the Dirichlet problem on C n ( Ω ) with g and satisfies lim r → ∞ , P = ( r , Θ ) ∈ C n ( Ω ) r − ι m + 1 , 0 + U ( Ω , 0 , m ; u ) ( P ) = 0 .

Our first aim is to give growth properties at infinity for U ( Ω , a , m ; u ) ( P ) .

Theorem 1 Let γ ≥ 0 (resp. γ < 0 ), ι [ γ ] , k + + { γ } > − ι 1 , k + + 1 (resp. − ι [ − γ ] , k + − { − γ } > − ι 1 , k + + 1 ) and

If u is a measurable function on ∂ C n ( Ω ) satisfying

∫ S n ( Ω ) | u ( t , Φ ) | 1 + t ι [ γ ] , k + + { γ } d σ Q < ∞ ( resp. ∫ S n ( Ω ) | u ( t , Φ ) | ( 1 + t ι [ − γ ] , k + + { − γ } ] ) d σ Q < ∞ ) , then

Next, we are concerned with solutions of the Dirichlet problem for the Schrödinger operator on C n ( Ω ) .

Theorem 2 Let γ and ι m + 1 , k + be as in Theorem 1. If u is a continuous function on ∂ C n ( Ω ) satisfying (1.6), then U ( Ω , a , m ; u ) ( P ) is a solution of the Dirichlet problem for the Schrödinger operator on C n ( Ω ) with u and (1.7) (resp. (1.8)) holds.

If we take ι [ γ ] , k + + { γ } = ι m + 1 , k + + n − 1 , then we immediately have the following corollary, which is just Theorem A in the case a = 0 .

Corollary If u is a continuous function on ∂ C n ( Ω ) satisfying ∫ S n ( Ω ) | u ( t , Φ ) | 1 + t ι m + 1 , k + + n − 1 d σ Q < ∞ , then U ( Ω , a , m ; u ) ( P ) is a solution of the Dirichlet problem for the Schrödinger operator on C n ( Ω ) with u and satisfies lim r → ∞ , P = ( r , Θ ) ∈ C n ( Ω ) r − ι m + 1 , k + U ( Ω , a , m ; u ) ( P ) = 0 .

By using Corollary, we can give a solution of the Dirichlet problem for any continuous function on ∂ C n ( Ω ) .

Theorem 3 If u is a continuous function on ∂ C n ( Ω ) satisfying (1.9) and h ( r , Θ ) is a solution of the Dirichlet problem for the Schrödinger operator on C n ( Ω ) with u satisfying

lim r → ∞ , P = ( r , Θ ) ∈ C n ( Ω ) r − ι m + 1 , k + h + ( P ) = 0 ,

then

h ( P ) = U ( Ω , a , m ; u ) ( P ) + ∑ j = 0 m ( ∑ v = 1 v j d j v φ j v ( Θ ) ) V j ( r ) ,

where P = ( r , Θ ) ∈ C n ( Ω ) and d j v are constants.

Throughout this article, let M denote various constants independent of the variables in questions, which may be different from line to line.

Lemma 1

for any P = ( r , Θ ) ∈ C n ( Ω ) and any Q = ( t , Φ ) ∈ S n ( Ω ) satisfying 0 < t r ≤ 4 5 (resp. 0 < r t ≤ 4 5 );

| P ( Ω , 0 ) ( P , Q ) | ≤ M 1 t n − 1 + M r | P − Q | n

for any P = ( r , Θ ) ∈ C n ( Ω ) and any Q = ( t , Φ ) ∈ S n ( Ω ; ( 4 5 r , 5 4 r ) ) .

Proof (2.1) and (2.2) are obtained by Kheyfits (see 10 , Ch. 11]). (2.3) follows from Azarin (see 13 , Lemma 4 and Remark]). □

Lemma 2 (see 1 )

For a nonnegative integer m, we have

| P ( Ω , a , m ) ( P , Q ) | ≤ M ( n , m , s ) V m + 1 ( r ) W m + 1 ( t ) t φ 1 ( Θ ) ∂ φ 1 ( Φ ) ∂ n Φ

for any P = ( r , Θ ) ∈ C n ( Ω ) and Q = ( t , Φ ) ∈ S n ( Ω ) satisfying r ≤ s t ( 0 < s < 1 ), where M ( n , m , s ) is a constant dependent of n, m and s.

Lemma 3 (see 2 , Theorem 1])

If u ( r , Θ ) is a solution of Equation (1.1) on C n ( Ω ) satisfying

∫ Ω u + ( r , Θ ) d S 1 = O ( r ι m , k + ) , as r → ∞ , then

u ( r , Θ ) = ∑ j = 0 m ( ∑ v = 1 v j d j v φ j v ( Θ ) ) V j ( r ) .

Lemma 4 Obviously, the conclusion of Lemma 3 holds true if (2.5) is replaced by

lim r → ∞ , ( r , Θ ) ∈ C n ( Ω ) r − ι m + 1 , k + u + ( r , Θ ) = 0 .

Proof Since

V m + 1 ( r ) ∼ r ι m + 1 , k + as r → ∞

from (1.5) and

ι m + 1 , k + ≥ ι m , k + ,

(2.6) gives that (2.5) holds, from which the conclusion immediately follows. □

We only prove the case γ ≥ 0 , the remaining case γ < 0 can be proved similarly.

For any ϵ > 0 , there exists R ϵ > 1 such that

∫ S n ( Ω ; ( R ϵ , ∞ ) ) | u ( Q ) | 1 + t ι [ γ ] , k + + { γ } d σ Q < ϵ .

The relation G ( Ω , a ) ( P , Q ) ≤ G ( Ω , 0 ) ( P , Q ) implies this inequality (see 14 )

P ( Ω , a ) ( P , Q ) ≤ P ( Ω , 0 ) ( P , Q ) .

For 0 < s < 4 5 and any fixed point P = ( r , Θ ) ∈ C n ( Ω ) satisfying r > 5 4 R ϵ , let I 1 = S n ( Ω ; ( 0 , 1 ) ) , I 2 = S n ( Ω ; [ 1 , R ϵ ] ) , I 3 = S n ( Ω ; ( R ϵ , 4 5 r ] ) , I 4 = S n ( Ω ; ( 4 5 r , 5 4 r ) ) , I 5 = S n ( Ω ; [ 5 4 r , r s ) ) , I 6 = S n ( Ω ; [ 1 , r s ) ) and I 7 = S n ( Ω ; [ r s , ∞ ) ) , we write

U ( Ω , a , m ; u ) ( P ) ≤ ∑ i = 1 7 U Ω , a , i ( P ) ,

where

By ι [ γ ] , k + + { γ } > − ι 1 , k + + 1 , (1.6), (2.1) and (3.1), we have the following growth estimates

We obtain by ι m + 1 , k + ≥ ι [ γ ] , k + + { γ } − n + 1 , (2.2) and (3.1)

U Ω , a , 5 ( P ) ≤ M r ι 1 , k + ∫ S n ( Ω ; [ ( 5 / 4 ) r , ∞ ) ) t ι 1 , k − − 1 | u ( Q ) | d σ Q ≤ M r ι 1 , k + ∫ S n ( Ω ; [ ( 5 / 4 ) r , ∞ ) ) t ι [ γ ] , k + + { γ } + ι 1 , k − − 1 | u ( Q ) | t ι [ γ ] , k + + { γ } d σ Q ≤ M ϵ r ι [ γ ] , k + + { γ } − n + 1 .

By (2.3) and (3.2), we consider the inequality

U Ω , a , 4 ( P ) ≤ U Ω , 0 , 4 ( P ) ≤ U Ω , 0 , 4 ′ ( P ) + U Ω , 0 , 4 ″ ( P ) ,

where

U Ω , 0 , 4 ′ ( P ) = M ∫ I 4 t 1 − n | u ( Q ) | d σ Q , U Ω , 0 , 4 ″ ( P ) = M r ∫ I 4 | u ( Q ) | | P − Q | n d σ Q .

We first have

U Ω , 0 , 4 ′ ( P ) = M ∫ I 4 t ι 1 , k + + ι 1 , k − − 1 | u ( Q ) | d σ Q ≤ M r ι 1 , k + ∫ S n ( Ω ; ( ( 4 / 5 ) r , ∞ ) ) t ι 1 , k − − 1 | u ( Q ) | d σ Q ≤ M ϵ r ι [ γ ] , k + + { γ } − n + 1 ,

which is similar to the estimate of U Ω , a , 5 ( P ) .

Next, we shall estimate U Ω , 0 , 4 ″ ( P ) . Take a sufficiently small positive number d 5 such that I 4 ⊂ B ( P , 1 2 r ) for any P = ( r , Θ ) ∈ Π ( d 5 ) , where

Π ( d 5 ) = { P = ( r , Θ ) ∈ C n ( Ω ) ; inf z ∈ ∂ Ω | ( 1 , Θ ) − ( 1 , z ) | < d 5 , 0 < r < ∞ }

and divide C n ( Ω ) into two sets Π ( d 5 ) and C n ( Ω ) − Π ( d 5 ) .

If P = ( r , Θ ) ∈ C n ( Ω ) − Π ( d 5 ) , then there exists a positive d 5 ′ such that | P − Q | ≥ d 5 ′ r for any Q ∈ S n ( Ω ) , and hence

U Ω , 0 , 4 ″ ( P ) ≤ M ∫ I 4 t 1 − n | u ( Q ) | d σ Q ≤ M ϵ r ι [ γ ] , k + + { γ } − n + 1 ,

which is similar to the estimate of U Ω , 0 , 4 ′ ( P ) .

We shall consider the case P = ( r , Θ ) ∈ Π ( d 5 ) . Now put

H i ( P ) = { Q ∈ I 4 ; 2 i − 1 δ ( P ) ≤ | P − Q | < 2 i δ ( P ) } .

Since S n ( Ω ) ∩ { Q ∈ R n : | P − Q | < δ ( P ) } = ∅ , we have

U Ω , 0 , 4 ″ ( P ) = M ∑ i = 1 i ( P ) ∫ H i ( P ) r | u ( Q ) | | P − Q | n d σ Q ,

where i ( P ) is a positive integer satisfying 2 i ( P ) − 1 δ ( P ) ≤ r 2 < 2 i ( P ) δ ( P ) .

Since we see from (1.2)

r φ 1 ( Θ ) ≤ M δ ( P )

for P = ( r , Θ ) ∈ C n ( Ω ) . Similar to the estimate of U Ω , 0 , 4 ′ ( P ) , we obtain

for i = 0 , 1 , 2 , … , i ( P ) .

So

U Ω , 0 , 4 ″ ( P ) ≤ M ϵ r ι [ γ ] , k + + { γ } − n + 1 .

We only consider U Ω , a , 6 ( P ) in the case m ≥ 1 , since U Ω , a , 6 ( P ) ≡ 0 for m = 0 . By the definition of K ˜ ( Ω , a , m ) , (1.3) and Lemma 2, we see

U Ω , a , 6 ( P ) ≤ M χ ′ ( 1 ) ∑ j = 0 m j 2 n − 1 q j ( r ) ,

where

q j ( r ) = V j ( r ) ∫ I 6 W j ( t ) | u ( Q ) | t d σ Q .

To estimate q j ( r ) , we write

q j ( r ) ≤ q j ′ ( r ) + q j ″ ( r ) ,

where

q j ′ ( r ) = V j ( r ) ∫ I 2 W j ( t ) | u ( Q ) | t d σ Q , q j ″ ( r ) = V j ( r ) ∫ S n ( Ω ; ( R ϵ , r / s ) ) W j ( t ) | u ( Q ) | t d σ Q .

Notice that

V j ( r ) V m + 1 ( t ) V j ( t ) t ≤ M V m + 1 ( r ) r ≤ M r ι m + 1 , k + − 1 ( t ≥ 1 , R ϵ < r s ) .

Thus, by ι m + 1 , k + < ι [ γ ] , k + + { γ } − n + 2 , (1.5) and (1.6) we conclude

q j ′ ( r ) = V j ( r ) ∫ I 2 | u ( Q ) | V j ( t ) t n − 1 d σ Q ≤ M V j ( r ) ∫ I 2 V m + 1 ( t ) t ι m + 1 , k + | u ( Q ) | V j ( t ) t n − 1 d σ Q ≤ M r ι m + 1 , k + − 1 R ϵ ι [ γ ] , k + + { γ } − ι m + 1 , k + − n + 2 .

Analogous to the estimate of q j ′ ( r ) , we have

q j ″ ( r ) ≤ M ϵ r ι [ γ ] , k + + { γ } − n + 1 .

Thus we can conclude that

q j ( r ) ≤ M ϵ r ι [ γ ] , k + + { γ } − n + 1 ,

which yields

U Ω , a , 6 ( P ) ≤ M ϵ r ι [ γ ] , k + + { γ } − n + 1 .

By ι m + 1 , k + ≥ ι [ γ ] , k + + { γ } − n + 1 , (1.5), (2.4) and (3.1) we have

U Ω , 0 , 7 ( P ) ≤ M V m + 1 ( r ) ∫ I 7 | u ( Q ) | V m + 1 ( t ) t n − 1 d σ Q ≤ M ϵ r ι [ γ ] , k + + { γ } − n + 1 .

Combining (3.3)–(3.11), we obtain that if R ϵ is sufficiently large and ϵ is sufficiently small, then U ( Ω , a , m ; u ) ( P ) = o ( r ι [ γ ] , k + + { γ } − n + 1 ) as r → ∞ , where P = ( r , Θ ) ∈ C n ( Ω ) . Then we complete the proof of Theorem 1.

For any fixed P = ( r , Θ ) ∈ C n ( Ω ) , take a number satisfying R > max ( 1 , r s ) ( 0 < s < 4 5 ). By ι m + 1 , k + ≥ ι [ γ ] , k + + { γ } − n + 1 , (1.4), (1.6) and (2.4), we have

Thus U ( Ω , a , m ; u ) ( P ) is finite for any P ∈ C n ( Ω ) . Since P ( Ω , a , m ) ( P , Q ) is a generalized harmonic function of P ∈ C n ( Ω ) for any fixed Q ∈ S n ( Ω ) , U ( Ω , a , m ; u ) ( P ) is also a generalized harmonic function of P ∈ C n ( Ω ) . That is to say, U ( Ω , a , m ; u ) ( P ) is a solution of Equation (1.1) on C n ( Ω ) .

Now we study the boundary behavior of U ( Ω , a , m ; u ) ( P ) . Let Q ′ = ( t ′ , Φ ′ ) ∈ ∂ C n ( Ω ) be any fixed point and l be any positive number satisfying l > max ( t ′ + 1 , 4 5 R ) .

Set χ S ( l ) is a characteristic function of S ( l ) = { Q = ( t , Φ ) ∈ ∂ C n ( Ω ) , t ≤ l } and write

U ( Ω , a , m ; u ) ( P ) = U ′ ( P ) − U ″ ( P ) + U ‴ ( P ) ,

where

Notice that U ′ ( P ) is the Poisson a-integral of u ( Q ) χ S ( ( 5 / 4 ) l ) , we have lim P → Q ′ , P ∈ C n ( Ω ) U ′ ( P ) = u ( Q ′ ) . Since lim Θ → Φ ′ φ j v ( Θ ) = 0 ( j = 1 , 2 , 3 , … ; 1 ≤ v ≤ v j ) as P = ( r , Θ ) → Q ′ = ( t ′ , Φ ′ ) ∈ S n ( Ω ) , we have lim P → Q ′ , P ∈ C n ( Ω ) U ″ ( P ) = 0 from the definition of the kernel function K ( Ω , a , m ) ( P , Q ) . U ‴ ( P ) = O ( r ι [ γ ] , k + + { γ } − n + 1 φ 1 ( Θ ) ) , and therefore tends to zero.

So the function U ( Ω , a , m ; u ) ( P ) can be continuously extended to C n ( Ω ) ¯ such that

lim P → Q ′ , P ∈ C n ( Ω ) U ( Ω , a , m ; u ) ( P ) = u ( Q ′ )

for any Q ′ = ( t ′ , Φ ′ ) ∈ ∂ C n ( Ω ) from the arbitrariness of l. Thus we complete the proof of Theorem 2 from Theorem 1.

From Corollary, we have the solution U ( Ω , a , m ; u ) ( P ) of the Dirichlet problem on C n ( Ω ) with u satisfying (1.9). Consider the function h ( P ) − U ( Ω , a , m ; u ) ( P ) . Then it follows that this is the solution of Equation (1.1) in C n ( Ω ) and vanishes continuously on ∂ C n ( Ω ) .

Since

0 ≤ ( h − U ( Ω , a , m ; u ) ) + ( P ) ≤ h + ( P ) + ( U ( Ω , a , m ; u ) ) − ( P )

for any P ∈ C n ( Ω ) , we have

lim r → ∞ , P = ( r , Θ ) ∈ C n ( Ω ) r − ι m + 1 , k + ( h − U ( Ω , a , m ; u ) ) + ( P ) = 0

from (1.10) and (1.11). Then the conclusions of Theorem 3 follow immediately from Lemma 4.

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