On the existence of Evans potentials

DOI10.1007/S00208-012-0873-2MaRDI QIDQ2392800zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Wolfhard Hansen, Ivan Netuka

Publication date 2 August 2013

Published in Mathematische Annalen (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00208-012-0873-2

zbMATH Keywords

Brelot harmonic space Evans potential parabolic Riemannian manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Potential theory on Riemannian manifolds and other spaces (31C12) Axiomatic potential theory (31D05)

Review text

It is well known that, for any non-polar compact subset \(K\) of \(\mathbb{R}^{2}\), there exists a positive harmonic function \(h\) on \(\mathbb{R}^{2}\backslash K\) which tends to \(\infty \) at infinity. Such functions are called Evans potentials. They do not exist in \(\mathbb{R}^{d}\) \((d\geq 3)\), but are known to exist on parabolic Riemann surfaces. A corollary of the main result of the present paper says that they exist on non-compact parabolic Riemannian manifolds. The authors work more generally in a non-compact connected Brelot harmonic space \(X\) where constants are the only positive superharmonic functions. Assuming that \(K\) is a compact subset of \(X\) such that \(X\backslash K\) admits a symmetric Green function, they show that there exists a non-negative harmonic function on \(X\backslash K\) that tends to \(\infty \) at infinity. They further show that this conclusion may fail without the assumption of symmetry on the Green function.

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