One-radius results for supermedian functions on R^d , d 2

DOI10.1007/S00208-010-0488-4MaRDI QIDQ5962317zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Wolfhard Hansen, Nikolai Nikolov

Publication date 22 September 2010

Published in Mathematische Annalen (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0908.1251

zbMATH Keywords

superharmonic function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: A classical result states that every lower bounded superharmonic function on $Bbb{R}^2$ is constant. In this paper the following (stronger) one-circle version is proven. If $fcolonBbb{R}^{2}o(-infty,infty]$ is lower semicontinuous, $limin{f}_{|x|oinfty}f(x)/ln|x|ge0$, and, for every $xinBbb{R}^2$, $1/(2pi)in{t}_0^{2pi}f(x+r(x)e^{it})dtlef(x)$, where $rcolonBbb{R}^{2}o(0,infty)$ is continuous, $su{p}_{xinBbb{R}^2}(r(x)-|x|)<infty$, and $in{f}_{xinBbb{R}^2}(r(x)-|x|)=-infty$, then $f$ is constant. Moreover, it is shown that, with respect to the assumption $rlec|cdot|+M$ on $Bbb{R}^d$, there is a striking difference between the restricted volume mean property for the cases $d=1$ and $d=2$.

Review text

It is well known that every lower bounded superharmonic function on \(\mathbb{R}^{2}\) is constant. This paper shows that the same conclusion can be drawn under much weaker hypotheses. Let \(f:\mathbb{R}^{2}\rightarrow (-\infty,\infty ]\) be a lower semicontinuous function satisfying \(\liminf_{\left| x\right| \rightarrow \infty }f(x)/\log \left| x\right| \geq 0\). It is only required that there is a continuous function \(r(x)\) such that \((2\pi )^{-1}\int_{[0,2\pi ]}f(x+r(x)e^{it})dt\leq f(x)\) for each \(x\in \mathbb{R}^{2}\), where \(r-\left| \cdot \right| \) is bounded above and unbounded below. It is then established that \(f\) must be constant. An analogous result for means over discs (rather than circles), under the assumption that \(r\leq c\left| \cdot \right| +M\), is shown to hold if and only if \(c\leq 1\). A one-dimensional version of the latter result is also obtained; in this case a different bound on \(c\) applies.

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