Sturdy harmonic functions and their integral representations

DOI10.1023/A:1026263202448MaRDI QIDQ1417890zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Jürgen Bliedtner, Peter A. Loeb

Publication date 6 January 2004

Published in Positivity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1026263202448

zbMATH Keywords

Choquet simplexDirichlet problemharmonic functionsintegral representationsMartin boundary

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Integral representations, integral operators, integral equations methods in two dimensions (31A10) Boundary behavior (theorems of Fatou type, etc.) of harmonic functions in two dimensions (31A20) Martin boundary theory (31C35) Axiomatic potential theory (31D05) Convex sets in topological linear spaces; Choquet theory (46A55) Boundary theory for Markov processes (60J50)

Review text

The Martin compactification was constructed in order to allow an integral representation for all positive harmonic functions. However, it was discovered that the Martin boundary may have irregularities with respect to the Dirichlet problem. \textit{P. A. Loeb} [Isr. J. Math. 25, 154--187 (1976; Zbl 0346.31007)] constructed a new compactification that in general is better than the Martin boundary for solving the Dirichlet problem; of course, on this new boundary only some positive harmonic functions do possess an integral representation. The present paper is devoted to a study of these functions. The framework is that of harmonic spaces in the sense of Constantinescu-Cornea. A positive harmonic function is called sturdy if it is the uniform limit on compact sets of a sequence of (positive) bounded harmonic functions. The paper includes an appendix by P. Loeb and H. von Weizsäcker on the existence of Zero-Set Mappings.

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