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J. Korean Math. Soc. 2008; 45(3): 807-819

Printed May 1, 2008

Copyright © The Korean Mathematical Society.

Energy finite solutions of elliptic equations on Riemannian manifolds

Seok Woo Kim and Yong Hah Lee

Konkuk University, Ewha Womans University

Abstract

We prove that for any continuous function $f$ on the $s$-harmonic $(1 < s < \infty)$ boundary of a complete Riemannian manifold $M$, there exists a solution, which is a limit of a sequence of bounded energy finite solutions in the sense of supremum norm, for a certain elliptic operator $\mathcal A$ on $M$ whose boundary value at each $s$-harmonic boundary point coincides with that of $f$.
If $E_1, E_2, \ldots, E_l$ are $s$-nonparabolic ends of $M$, then we also prove that there is a one to one correspondence between the set of bounded energy finite solutions for $\mathcal A$ on $M$ and the Cartesian product of the sets of bounded energy finite solutions for $\mathcal A$ on $E_i$ which vanish at the boundary $\partial E_i$ for $i =1,2,\ldots,l$.

Keywords: $s$-harmonic boundary, $\mathcal A$-harmonic function, end

MSC numbers: Primary 58J05, 31B05