Guo–Wang's conjecture for positive harmonic functions on the unit ball

Let n3n\geq 3, let BnRn\mathbb{B}^n\subset\mathbb{R}^n be the unit ball with boundary sphere Sn1\mathbb{S}^{n-1}, and let uC(Bn)u\in C^{\infty}(\mathbb{B}^n) be positive and satisfy

{Δu=0inBn,uν+λu=uqonSn1,\begin{cases} \Delta u=0 & \operatorname{in} \mathbb{B}^n,\\\\ \dfrac{\partial u}{\partial\nu}+\lambda u=u^q & \operatorname{on} \mathbb{S}^{n-1}, \end{cases}

where 1<qnn21<q\leq\dfrac{n}{n-2} and 0<λ1q10<\lambda\leq\dfrac{1}{q-1} are constants. Guo–Wang's conjecture. Either uu is constant, or q=nn2q=\dfrac{n}{n-2}, λ=n22\lambda=\dfrac{n-2}{2}, and, for some aBna\in\mathbb{B}^n,

u(x)=(n221a2a2x22x,a+1)n22.u(x)=\left(\dfrac{n-2}{2}\dfrac{1-|a|^2}{|a|^2|x|^2-2\langle x,a\rangle+1}\right)^{\frac{n-2}{2}}.

This is the model-space version of Wang's conjecture. The paper gives partial verification, while the conjecture in the full stated parameter range remains open; related results resolve the two-dimensional analogue and the ball case cited in the paper.

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Xiaohan Cai, “Uniqueness results for positive harmonic functions on manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature and strictly convex boundary”, arXiv:2511.09994 (2026).

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