Equivalences among parabolicity, comparison principle and capacity on complete Riemannian manifolds

Abstract: In this work we establish new equivalences for the concept of $p$-parabolic Riemannian manifolds. We define a concept of comparison principle for elliptic PDE's on exterior domains of a complete Riemannian manifold $M$ and prove that $M$ is $p$-parabolic if and only if this comparison principle holds for the $p$-Laplace equation. We show also that the $p$-parabolicity of $M$ implies the validity of this principle for more general elliptic PDS's and, in some cases, these results can be extended for non $p$-parabolic manifolds or unbounded solutions, provided that some growth of these solutions are assumed.