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Three circles theorems for harmonic functions

Differential Geometry 2016-12-21 v1

Abstract

We proved two Three Circles Theorems for harmonic functions on manifolds in integral sense. As one application, on manifold with nonnegative Ricci curvature, whose tangent cone at infinity is the unique metric cone with unique conic measure, we showed the existence of nonconstant harmonic functions with polynomial growth. This existence result recovered and generalized the former result of Y. Ding, and led to a complete answer of L. Ni's conjecture. Furthermore in similar context, combining the techniques of estimating the frequency of harmonic functions with polynomial growth, which were developed by Colding and Minicozzi, we confirmed their conjecture about the uniform bound of frequency.

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@article{arxiv.1601.02066,
  title  = {Three circles theorems for harmonic functions},
  author = {Guoyi Xu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.02066},
  year   = {2016}
}

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34pp, to appear on Math. Ann

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