Convexity properties of harmonic functions on parameterized families of hypersurfaces

DOI10.1007/S12220-019-00307-YMaRDI QIDQ2659025zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Stine Marie Berge

Publication date 25 March 2021

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.08085

zbMATH Keywords

1-homogeneous functionsAlmgren's frequency functiongeodesic spheresharmonic functionsradial distance function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Harmonic, subharmonic, superharmonic functions in higher dimensions (31B05) Laplace operator, Helmholtz equation (reduced wave equation), Poisson equation (35J05) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21)

Abstract: It is known that the $L^2$-norms of a harmonic function over spheres satisfies some convexity inequality strongly linked to the Almgren's frequency function. We examine the $L^2$-norms of harmonic functions over a wide class of evolving hypersurfaces. More precisely, we consider compact level sets of smooth regular functions and obtain a differential inequality for the $L^2$-norms of harmonic functions over these hypersurfaces. To illustrate our result, we consider ellipses with constant eccentricity and growing tori in $mathbf{R}^3.$ Moreover, we give a new proof of the convexity result for harmonic functions on a Riemannian manifold when integrating over spheres. The inequality we obtain for the case of positively curved Riemannian manifolds with non-constant curvature is slightly better than the one previously known.

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• Harmonic families of hypersurfaces
• The effect of curvature on convexity properties of harmonic functions and eigenfunctions
• On Convexity of Level Curves of Harmonic Functions in the Hyperbolic Plane
• Logarithmic Convexity for Supremum Norms of Harmonic Functions
• Strong convexity for harmonic functions on compact symmetric spaces

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