# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

December  2015, 35(12): 6155-6163. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2015.35.6155

## A note on higher regularity boundary Harnack inequality

 1 Department of Mathematics, Barnard College, Columbia University, 2990 Broadway, New York, NY 10027, United States 2 Department of Mathematics, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, United States

Received  March 2014 Published  May 2015

We show that the quotient of a harmonic function and a positive harmonic function, both vanishing on the boundary of a $C^{k,\alpha}$ domain is of class $C^{k,\alpha}$ up to the boundary.
Citation: Daniela De Silva, Ovidiu Savin. A note on higher regularity boundary Harnack inequality. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2015, 35 (12) : 6155-6163. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2015.35.6155
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