On Dirichlet problem

Abstract

During almost two centuries after the Gauss’ formulation of the Dirichlet problem for Laplace equation, many famous mathematicians devoted their studies to this subject and to its various generalizations. Many interesting and important results have been obtained, which become already classical ones. Our paper is an extended presentation of the author’s talk on the international conference dedicate to the century of V. S. Vladimirov birthday. Its main content is the review of the results in that direction, including the proves of new statements and discussion of unsolved problems. Our goal is to convince readers that, in this “principal” problem of mathematical physics, we know far from everything even about the case of linear equation. There are many interesting and important unsolved problems in that direction.