Neumann problem
Suppose is a region of and is the boundary of .Further suppose is a function , and suppose corresponds to taking a derivative in a direction normal to the boundary at any point. Then theNeumann problem is to find a function such that
Here represents the Laplacian operator and the second condition is that be a harmonic function on . The condition for the existence of a solution of the Neumann problem is that integral of the normal derivative of the function , calculated over the entire boundary , vanish. This follows from the identic equation
and from the fact that .