The family of level sets of a harmonic function

DOI10.1007/S41478-019-00218-9zbMATH Open1472.31003arXiv1812.02198OpenAlexW2996451353WikidataQ126525782 ScholiaQ126525782MaRDI QIDQ1996451FDOQ1996451

Pisheng Ding

Publication date: 5 March 2021

Published in: The Journal of Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Families of hypersurfaces that are level-set families of harmonic functions free of critical points are characterized by a local differential-geometric condition. Harmonic functions with a specified level-set family are constructed from geometric data. As a by-product, it is shown that the evolution of the gradient of a harmonic function along the gradient flow is determined by the mean curvature of the level sets that the flow intersects.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.02198

zbMATH Keywords

harmonic functionlevel setcurvature

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Harmonic, subharmonic, superharmonic functions in two dimensions (31A05) Harmonic, subharmonic, superharmonic functions in higher dimensions (31B05)

Cites Work

• The Level Curves of Harmonic Functions
• On the Curvature of the Level Lines of a Harmonic Function

Cited In (5)

• A note on level sets of differentiable functions \(f(x,y)\) with non-vanishing gradient
• Level sets of harmonic functions on the Sierpiński gasket
• Geometric characterization of level set families of harmonic functions on Riemannian manifolds
• Curve families \(F^*\) locally the level curves of a pseudoharmonic function
• Level sets of functions \(f(x,y)\) with non-vanishing gradient

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