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An understanding of harmonic and subharmonic functions in the complex plane provides the foundation for the study of logarithmic potentials. In this chapter we review the definitions and basic properties of such functions. In so doing we assume that the reader is acquainted with the fundamentals of analytic function theory.
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Saff, E.B., Totik, V. (1997). Preliminaries. In: Logarithmic Potentials with External Fields. Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften, vol 316. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03329-6_1
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