A volume estimate for strong subharmonicity and maximum principle on complete Riemannian manifolds (Q4236906)

The following theorem is proved: Let \((M,g)\) be a complete Riemannian manifold of dimension \(m\geq 1\). Suppose that \(M\) admits a point \(x\) such that \(\liminf_{r\to+\infty} h_x(r)< +\infty\), where \(h_x(x)= \log V_x(r)/r^2\) and \(V_x(r)\) is the volume of the geodesic ball centred at \(x\) with radius \(r\). Then the following maximum principle holds on \((M,g)\): For a smooth function \(f\) bounded from above on \(M\), for any given point \(x\in M\) and \(\varepsilon >0\) there exists a point \(x_\varepsilon\in M\) such that \(f(x)\leq f(x_\varepsilon)\), \(|\text{grad } f(x_\varepsilon) |<\varepsilon\) and \(\Delta f(x_\varepsilon)< \varepsilon\).