Boundary problem with elliptic 2nd order pde

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I am reading some notes about harmonic functions and associated boundary problems and I came through a proposition stating that the problem

$u_{xx}+u_{yy}=0$

$u(0,y)=u(1,y)=u(x,1)=u(x,0)=0$ , where $x,y\in[0,1]$

has only the 0 solution. I would like kindly to ask you if the following problem

$u_{xx}+u_{yy}+au_{y}+bu_{x}=0$

$u(0,y)=u(1,y)=u(x,1)=u(x,0)=0$ , where $x,y\in[0,1]$

has also only the $0$ solution. Any hints or refferences are welcome. Thanks in advance.

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@dmitri Yes, the solution to your problem is unique. This follows from the (strong) maximum principle. The basic idea is that if you had a non-zero solution you would have a point in the square where it attains a positive maximum or a negative minimum. At that point your first derivatives would be zero and the second ones would have a definite sign. The degenerate case can be dealt with using a barrier type of argument. You can find more info here:

http://www.mi.uni-koeln.de/~gsweers/pdf/maxprinc.pdf

Check Corollary 7.

Hope this helps.