Denjoy-Ahlfors theorem for harmonic functions on Riemannian manifolds and external structure of minimal surfaces

DOI10.4310/CAG.1996.V4.N4.A2MaRDI QIDQ678098zbMATHOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors V. G. Tkachev, V. M. Miklyukov

Publication date 16 April 1997

Published in Communications in Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0903.2326

zbMATH Keywords

Riemannian manifoldsLiouville theoremtopological indexminimal surfacesubharmonic functionsBernstein's theoremDenjoy-Ahlfors theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Variational problems concerning minimal surfaces (problems in two independent variables) (58E12)

Abstract: We extend the well-known Denjoy-Ahlfors theorem on the number of different asymptotic tracts of holomorphic functions to subharmonic functions on arbitrary Riemannian manifolds. We obtain some new versions of the Liouville theorem for $p$-harmonic functions without requiring the geodesic completeness requirement of a manifold. Moreover, an upper estimate of the topological index of the height function on a minimal surface in $Rn$ has been established and, as a consequence, a new proof of Bernstein's theorem on entire solutions has been derived. Other applications to minimal surfaces are also discussed.

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