Asymptotic harmonicity of negatively curved homogeneous spaces and their measures at infinity (Q5929586)

The author explores the asymptotic geometry of complete simply connected negatively curved homogeneous spaces, abbreviated NCHS's. One of the main goals of this paper is to study asymptotic harmonicity for NCHS's. A manifold is asymptotically harmonic if the mean curvatures of all the horospheres are everywhere constant. Horospheres are the limits of metric spheres through a fixed point whose centers go to infinity along a geodesic ray. The author characterizes asymptotic harmonicity of NCHS's in terms of various natural measures. He also shows that the Bowen-Margulis, harmonic, and Liouville measures on the unit tangent bundle and the corresponding measures on the boundary are always in the same measure class. It is shown that Cheeger's constant, the Kaimanovich entropy, and the bottom of the spectrum are all maximal for these spaces. Along the way the author presents sharp asymptotic estimates for Jacobi fields and the Poisson and Green's kernels.