Harmonic functions on connected sums of manifolds (Q1202424)

Let \(M\) be a connected sum of \(k\) complete noncompact manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature \(M_ 1,\dots,M_ k\). In this note, we prove that the dimension of the space of harmonic functions which are bounded on each end of \(M\) is equal to the number of ends. We also prove that the dimension of the space of linear growth harmonic functions on \(M\) is equal to the sum of the dimension of the space of linear growth harmonic functions of \(M_ i\), \(1\leq i\leq k\).