Harmonic measures, Hausdorff measures and positive eigenfunctions (Q678649)

The author deals with a compact negatively curved Riemannian manifold \(M\) with universal covering \(\widetilde M\). Denote by \(\Delta\) the Laplacian on \(\widetilde M\), and let \(\delta_0 >0\) be the negative of the bottom of the positive spectrum of \(\Delta\) on \(\widetilde M\). Methods from ergodic theory are used to show that \(\Delta+ \delta_0\) admits a Green's function which decays exponentially with the distance. Moreover, for almost every point \(\zeta\in \partial \widetilde M\) with respect to a suitable Borel-measure which is positive on open sets, the unique minimal positive \(\Delta+ \delta_0- \varepsilon\)-harmonic functions on \(\widetilde M\) with pole at \(\zeta\) normalized at a point \(x\in \widetilde M\) converge as \(\varepsilon \to 0\) uniformly on compact sets to a minimal positive \(\Delta+ \delta_0\)-harmonic function.