Quasi-nearly subharmonic functions and quasiconformal mappings (Q438865)

It is well known that the classes of harmonic and subharmonic functions are conformally invariant. The authors investigate similar notions of invariance for the wider class of quasi-nearly subharmonic functions. In addition, instead of conformal maps they consider the larger classes of quasiconformal and quasiregular maps. Let \(u\) be a locally bounded, nonnegative, measurable function on a domain \(\Omega\subset \mathbb R^n\). If there exists a constant \(C\) such that \[ u(a)\leq Cr^{-n}\int_{B(a,r)}u \] whenever \(B(a,r)\subset \Omega\), then \(u\) is called quasi-nearly subharmonic. Theorem 1.2 asserts that the composition of a quasi-nearly subharmonic function with a quasiregular map of bounded multiplicity is also quasi-nearly subharmonic. In the converse direction, the authors show that under certain additional assumptions the maps preserving quasi-nearly subharmonic functions are quasiregular.