In mathematics is weakly harmonic if

with compact support and continuous second derivatives, where is the Laplacian. This is the same notion as a weak derivative, however, a function can have a weak derivative and not be differentiable. In this case, we have the somewhat surprising result that a function is weakly harmonic if and only if it is harmonic. Thus weakly harmonic is actually equivalent to the seemingly stronger harmonic condition.

See also

• Weak solution

• Weyl's lemma

References