Consider the Royden compactification R* of a Riemannian n-manifold R, Γ = R*\R its Royden boundary, Δ its harmonic boundary and the elliptic differential equation Δu = Pu, P ≥ 0 on R.A regular Borel measure mP can be constructed on Γ with support equal to the closure of ΔP = {q ϵ Δ : qhas a neighborhood U in R* with UʃᴖRP ˂ ∞ }.Every enegy-finite solution to u (i.e. E(u) = D(u) + ʃRu2P ˂ ∞, where D(u) is the Dirichlet integral of u) can be represented by u(z) = ʃΓu(q)K(z,q)dmP(q) where K(z,q) is a continuous function on Rx Γ .A P~E-function is a nonnegative solution which is the infimum of a downward directed family of energy-finite solutions.A nonzero P~E-function is called P~E-minimal if it is a constant multiple of every nonzero P~E-function dominated by it.THEOREM.There exists a P~E-minimal function if and only if there exists a point in qϵΓsuch that mP(q) > 0.THEOREM.For q ϵ ΔP , mP(q) > 0if and only if m0(q) > 0 .