Boundary behavior of harmonic functions on metric measure spaces with non-negative Ricci curvature

Abstract

Let (X, d, μ) be a metric measure space with non-negative Ricci curvature. This paper is concerned with the boundary behavior of harmonic function on the (open) upper half-space X\times {\text{ℝ}}_{+}. We derive that a function f of bounded mean oscillation (BMO) is the trace of harmonic function u(x,t) on X\times {\text{ℝ}}_{+},u(x,0)=f\left(x\right), whenever u satisfies the following Carleson measure condition

where \nabla =({\nabla }_x,{\partial }_t) denotes the total gradient and B(x_B,r_B) denotes the (open) ball centered at x_B with radius r_B. Conversely, the above condition characterizes all the harmonic functions whose traces are in BMO space.

Keywords

Harmonic function / metric measure space / BMO / Carleson measure

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