Solvability of boundary value problems for Poisson's equation in unbounded domains on noncompact Riemannian manifolds (Q2185092)

The first part of the present paper describes an approach to posing boundary value problems on a noncompact Riemannian manifold \(M\) that is based on introducing the notion of classes of continuous functions equivalent on the manifold \(M\), and studies the issues of solvability of boundary and exterior boundary value problems for equations of the form \[ L[u] \ := \ \Delta \, u \ - \ c(x) \, u \ = \ g (x) \] (where the function \(c(x)\) is nonnegative, and both \(c(x)\) and \(g(x)\) are in \(C^{0,\gamma} (\Omega) \) for any precompact \(\Omega \subset M\)) in unbounded domains on a noncompact boundary-less Riemannian manifold \(M\). Here a solution is meant in the sense of a function which is \(C^2\) and satisfies the equation on any precompact set \(\Omega \subset M\) and \(0<\gamma<1\). The second part of this paper treats, in order to illustrate the results obtained, \textit{model manifolds} \(M_q\) representable in the form \(M_q = B \cup D\), where \(B\) is some precompact set with nonempty interior while \(D\) is isometric to the direct product \([r_0, +\infty)\times S\) where \(r_0 > 0\) and \(S\) is a closed Riemannian manifold with metric \(d \theta^2\), the metric in \(M_q\) being \(ds^2 = dr^2 + q^2(r) d \theta^2\). This class includes Euclidean spaces \(\mathbb R^n\), hyperbolic spaces \(\mathbb{H}^n\), surfaces of revolution, and others.