Harmonic functions on product of certain Kähler manifolds with a pole (Q5943623)

The main result of the paper asserts that given two complete noncompact Kähler manifolds \(M\) and \(N\) having the property that all the geodesic spheres centered at some point are convex, then any finite energy harmonic function on \(M\times N\) is constant. This is then applied to the particular case of the classical bounded symmetric domain \({\mathcal R}_{IV}(2)=H^2\times H^2\), hence giving an original partial answer to \textit{Y. L. Xin}'s question [Acta Math. Sin. (Engl. Ser.) 15, No. 2, 277-292 (1999; Zbl 0934.58019)].