Colding–Minicozzi conjectures on the frequency of harmonic functions

Let MnM^n be a complete Riemannian manifold with nonnegative Ricci curvature and maximal volume growth, and let Fu(r)\mathscr{F}_u(r) denote the frequency function of a harmonic function uu. A polynomial growth harmonic function is one whose growth is bounded by a polynomial in the distance. Colding–Minicozzi conjectures. (a) If uu is a non-constant polynomial growth harmonic function on MnM^n, then Fu(r)\mathscr{F}_u(r) is uniformly bounded. (b) Suppose B2r(p)MnB_{2r}(p)\subseteq M^n for some pMnp\in M^n, and uu is harmonic on B2r(p)B_{2r}(p) with

sups[r,2r]Fu(s)d,\sup_{s\in [r, 2r]}\mathscr{F}_u(s)\leq d,

where d>0d>0 is a constant. Then there exists C=C(n,d,VM)C=C(n,d,\mathrm{V}_M) such that

sups[0,r]Fu(s)C.\sup_{s\in [0,r]}\mathscr{F}_u(s)\leq C.

These conjectures concern uniform frequency bounds and quantitative strong unique continuation for harmonic functions. The source presents them as conjectures of Colding and Minicozzi; no resolution is given here.

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Primary source

Guoyi Xu, “The growth rate of harmonic functions”, arXiv:1912.02627 (2019).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2016–2019). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1601.02066.

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