Price Inequality and the Growth of Harmonic Functions on Non-Positively Curved Manifolds

Abstract

We obtain effective estimates for the growth rate of the $L^2$-energy of harmonic functions on geodesic balls in complete simply connected non-positively curved Riemannian manifolds with pinched sectional curvature. Our study relies upon a double-sided Price inequality for harmonic functions. Finally, we apply this circle of ideas to study the analytical structure of a potential counterexample to the Singer conjecture in degree one.

The proof in Appendix B is simplified, relying solely on a maximum principle argument. 17 pages, no figures