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A bosonic Laplacian is a conformally invariant second order differential operator acting on smooth functions defined on domains in Euclidean space and taking values in higher order irreducible representations of the special orthogonal group, in this case, the irreducible representation spaces of homogeneous harmonic polynomials. In this paper, we study boundary value problems involving bosonic Laplacians in the upper-half space and the unit ball. Poisson kernels in the upper-half space and the unit ball are constructed, which give us solutions to the Dirichlet problems with \(L^p\) boundary data, \(1 \le p \le \infty \). We also prove the uniqueness for solutions to the Dirichlet problems with continuous data for bosonic Laplacians and provide analogs of some properties of harmonic functions for null solutions of bosonic Laplacians, for instance, Cauchy’s estimates, the mean-value property, Liouville’s Theorem, etc.
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Chao Ding and Phuoc-Tai Nguyen are supported by Czech Science Foundation, project GJ19-14413Y.
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Ding, C., Nguyen, PT. & Ryan, J. Boundary value problems in Euclidean space for bosonic Laplacians. Complex Anal Synerg 10, 6 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40627-024-00132-2
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