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Let $u$ be a harmonic function inside the unit ball $B(0, 1)$ in $\mathbb{R}^2$ so that $|u|\leqslant 1$. Does a function u which satisfies $|\nabla u(0)|>1$ exist? If not, please prove that $|\nabla u(0)|\leqslant1$. Thanks.

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The answer is "Yes" by the following harmonic analogy of Schwarz lemma:

See Proposition 1.5. of this paper which says that $4/\pi$ is a sharp upper bound.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1010.4905.pdf

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  • $\begingroup$ @张旭辉 You are well come! $\endgroup$ Commented Oct 10, 2017 at 15:42

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