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Homework Statement
I'm trying to show that the Green's function for the Laplace operator $-\nabla^2$ is badly behaved at infinity. I.e.
$$\int d^dx|G(x,y)|^2=\infty$$ for d=1,2,3. What happens when d>4?
I know the 1D Green's function is given by
$$G(x,y)=-\frac{|x-y|}{2}$$
Homework Equations
The Attempt at a Solution
$$G(x,y)\propto|x-y|^{-(d-2)}$$ for d>2
I need to be able to show that the above integral diverges...