Bounded \(\lambda \)-harmonic functions in domains of \({\mathbb {H}}^n\) with asymptotic boundary with fractional dimension (Q1711013)

The authors investigate the existence of bounded solutions to the following problem \[ \begin{cases} -\Delta u=\lambda u\,, & \text{in }\Omega,\\ u=0\,,& \text{on }\partial\Omega \end{cases}\tag{1} \] when \(\Omega\) is an unbounded domain in the hyperbolic \(n\)-dimensional space \(\mathbb H^n\) and \(\lambda\in[0,\lambda_1(\mathbb H^n)]\), where \(\lambda_1(\mathbb H^n)=(n-1)^2/4\). The authors show that the existence of such solutions is related to the \((n-1)/2\)-dimensional Hausdorff measure of the asymptotic boundary \(\partial_{\infty}\Omega\) of \(\Omega\). Namely, they prove that if the \((n-1)/2\)-dimensional Hausdorff measure of the asymptotic boundary, \(\mathcal H^{(n-1)/2}(\partial_{\infty}\Omega)\), is zero, then there is no bounded solution to (1) for \(\lambda\in[0,\lambda_1(\mathbb H^n)]\). They also show that such non-existence result is optimal in the sense that if the Hausdorff dimension of \(\partial_{\infty}\Omega\) is stricly greater that \((n-1)/2\), then problem \((1)\) may have a bounded solution. In fact they prove that for all \(s\in(\frac{n-1}{2},n-1)\) there exists \(\Omega\subset\mathbb H^n\) such that the Hausdorff dimension of \(\partial_{\infty}\Omega\) is \(s\) and for which there exists bounded solutions to \((1)\) which decay exponentially at infinity.