In this note, we introduce various spaces of harmonic functions on a complete Riemannian manifold, and present the study of how the space of polynomial growth harmonic functions on a complete manifold can be reduced to each end of the manifold. Finally, the finite dimensionality for such spaces on a manifold is established.

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