Paper · Jan 9, 2025

Drift-harmonic functions with polynomial growth on asymptotically paraboloidal manifolds

Michael B. Law

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Abstract

We construct and classify all polynomial growth solutions to certain drift-harmonic equations on complete manifolds with paraboloidal asymptotics. These encompass the natural drift-harmonic equations on certain steady gradient Ricci solitons. Specifically, we show that all drift-harmonic functions with polynomial growth asymptotically separate variables, and compute the dimensions of spaces of drift-harmonic functions with a given polynomial growth rate. The proof uses an inductive argument that alternates between constructing and asymptotically controlling drift-harmonic functions.

Submitted
Jan 9, 2025
Last revised
Feb 13, 2025 (v2)
Subjects
math.DG, math.AP

Comments: 50 pages. v2: tidied up some parts, changed exposition. Main result and proof are the same

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