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THE MEAN-VALUE PROPERTY AND (α,β)-HARMONICITY

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 October 2011

DAN LI*
Affiliation:
Chern Institute of Mathematics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, PR China (email: lidaneileen@yahoo.cn)
CONGWEN LIU
Affiliation:
School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, PR China (email: cwliu@ustc.edu.cn)
*
For correspondence; e-mail: lidaneileen@yahoo.cn
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Abstract

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In this article we consider whether, for integrable functions on the unit ball of ℂn, the mean-value property implies (α,β)-harmonicity. We find that the answer is affirmative when 0<n+α+βρ0, but is negative when n+α+β>ρ0. Here ρ0 is a constant between 11.025 and 11.069.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc. 2011

Footnotes

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 10601025, 11071230) and the Anhui Provincial Natural Science Foundation (No. 090416233).

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