Restricted mean value property on Riemannian manifolds

Abstract

A well studied classical problem is the harmonicity of functions satisfying the restricted mean-value property (RMVP). While this has so far been studied mainly for domains in ${\mathbb{R}}^n$, we consider this problem in the general setting of domains in Riemannian manifolds, and obtain results generalizing classical results of Fenton. We also obtain a result for complete, simply connected Riemannian manifolds of pinched negative curvature where there is no restriction on the radius function in the RMVP.