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On the Dirichlet Problem at Infinity and Poisson Boundary for Certain Manifolds without Conjugate Points

Differential Geometry 2025-09-05 v3 Probability

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the problem of the existence of the bounded harmonic functions on a simply connected Riemannian manifold M~\widetilde{M} without conjugate points, which can be compactified via the ideal boundary M~()\widetilde{M}(\infty). Let M~\widetilde{M} be a uniform visibility manifold which satisfy the Axiom 22, or a rank 11 manifold without focal points, suppose that Γ\Gamma is a cocompact discrete subgroup of Iso(M~)Iso(\widetilde{M}), we show that for a given continuous function on M~()\widetilde{M}(\infty), there exists a harmonic extension to M~\widetilde{M}. And furthermore, when M~\widetilde{M} is a rank 11 manifold without focal points, the Brownian motion defines a family of harmonic measures ν\nu_{\ast} on M~()\widetilde{M}(\infty), we show that (M~(),ν)(\widetilde{M}(\infty),\nu_{\ast}) is isomorphic to the Poisson boundary of Γ\Gamma.

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@article{arxiv.2506.22883,
  title  = {On the Dirichlet Problem at Infinity and Poisson Boundary for Certain Manifolds without Conjugate Points},
  author = {Fei Liu and Yinghan Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.22883},
  year   = {2025}
}

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50 pages, 6 figures. Comments are welcome!

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