Research Article
Green’s Function for a Slice of the Korányi Ball in
the Heisenberg Group H
Shivani Dubey,
1
Ajay Kumar,
1
and Mukund Madhav Mishra
2
1
Department of Mathematics, University of Delhi, Delhi 110007, India
2
Department of Mathematics, Hans Raj College, University of Delhi, Delhi 110007, India
Correspondence should be addressed to Ajay Kumar; akumar@maths.du.ac.in
Received 25 June 2015; Revised 18 August 2015; Accepted 24 August 2015
Academic Editor: Heinrich Begehr
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We give a representation formula for solution of the inhomogeneous Dirichlet problem on the upper half Kor´ anyi ball and for the
slice of the Kor´ anyi ball in the Heisenberg group H
by obtaining explicit expressions of Green-like kernel when the given data has
certain radial symmetry.
1. Introduction
Te Heisenberg groups, in discrete and continuous versions,
appear in several streams of mathematics, including Fourier
analysis, several complex variables, geometry, and topology.
Te well known concepts of Green, Neumann, and Robin
functions are important for representing solutions to certain
boundary value problems for elliptic equations and to realize
their smoothness properties. While the existence of these
particular fundamental solutions for admissible domains
are presented in all textbooks (see, e.g., [1–3]), explicit
expressions for these functions are rare. In case of the Laplace
operator mostly just the unit ball serves as an example.
Te objective of this paper is to continue the search for
explicit Green’s functions for domains other than the Kor´ anyi
ball in the Heisenberg group. Tere is little hope to get explicit
kernels that work for arbitrary continuous boundary data, but
it is possible to fnd some if one is restricted to boundary data
having certain symmetry properties. Tis line of investigation
was started by Gaveau et al. in [4] where they dealt with the
case of the unit ball in the 3-dimensional Heisenberg group
H
1
and functions invariant under a circle action. Tis result
was extended in [5] to the general Heisenberg group H
with
its natural metric, for functions invariant under the unitary
group (). Further, in the case of H
, it has been shown
that the method of [5] works for the much larger class of
circular functions, that is, functions invariant under a circle
action [6]. Te Dirichlet problem on the Heisenberg group
and the existence of unique solution was discussed in [7].
Green’s function for circular data in the Heisenberg group has
been studied for various domains, for example, for half space
in [6], for quarter space in [8], and for annulus in [9].
In following sections, we obtain the circular Green’s
function for the upper half Kor´ anyi ball and a slice of the
Kor´ anyi ball by two parallel planes. We apply the method
of infnitely many refections along the boundaries of the
domain, which was introduced by Courant and Hilbert in [2],
generalized for the annulus in the Heisenberg group [10].
2. Analysis on the Heisenberg Group
We begin by recalling some notions from [11], which have
laid the foundation for harmonic analysis on the Heisenberg
group.
Defnition 1. Te Heisenberg group H
(of degree ) is the Lie
group structure on C
× R whose group law is given by
[,]⋅ [
,
]=[+
,+
+2Im (⋅
)],
⋅
=
∑
=1
⋅
.
(1)
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 2015, Article ID 460461, 7 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/460461