Soit $\Omega$, ouvert de ${\mathbf{R}}^n$ et $f:\Omega \to \mathbf{R}$, continue. On dit qu’une majorante surharmonique de $f$ dans $\Omega$ est minimale si cette majorante surharmonique est harmonique dans l’ensemble (ouvert) où elle diffère de $f$. Beaucoup de propriétés de ces fonctions sont semblables à celles des fonctions harmoniques $\ge 0$ (lesquelles correspondent à $f=0$) ; par exemple la famille entière est uniformément équicontinue dans chaque partie compacte de $\Omega$, relativement à la structure uniforme de $\bar{\mathbf{R}}$. On traite le problème de Dirichlet : détermination...

Assume that u, v are conjugate harmonic functions on the unit disc of ℂ, normalized so that u(0) = v(0) = 0. Let u*, |v|* stand for the one- and two-sided Brownian maxima of u and v, respectively. The paper contains the proof of the sharp weak-type estimate ℙ(|v|* ≥ 1)≤ (1 + 1/3² + 1/5² + 1/7² + ...)/(1 - 1/3² + 1/5² - 1/7² + ...) 𝔼u*. Actually, this estimate is shown to be true in the more general setting of differentially subordinate harmonic functions defined...

A positive measurable function K on a domain D in ${ℝ}^{n+1}$ is called a mean value density for temperatures if $u(0,0)=\int {\int }_{D}K(x,t)u(x,t)dxdt$ for all temperatures u on D̅. We construct such a density for some domains. The existence of a bounded density and a density which is bounded away from zero on D is also discussed.

Let $u$ be a $\delta$-subharmonic function with associated measure $\mu$, and let $v$ be a superharmonic function with associated measure $\nu$, on an open set $E$. For any closed ball $B(x,r)$, of centre $x$ and radius $r$, contained in $E$, let $ℳ(u,x,r)$ denote the mean value of $u$ over the surface of the ball. We prove that the upper and lower limits as $s,t\to 0$ with $0<s<t$ of the quotient $\left(ℳ\right(u,x,s)-ℳ(u,x,t\left)\right)/\left(ℳ\right(v,x,s)-ℳ(v,x,t\left)\right)$, lie between the upper and lower limits as $r\to 0+$ of the quotient $\mu \left(B\right(x,r\left)\right)/\nu \left(B\right(x,r\left)\right)$. This enables us to use some well-known measure-theoretic results to prove new variants and generalizations...

Some results concerning the multiply superharmonic functions and the boundary behaviour are given and some problems involving these notions are described.