Recent Progress in Polyhedral Harmonics

Polyhedral harmonics is a subject which deals with the problem of characterizing the continuous functions satisfying the mean value property with respect to a polytope. The main feature of it is the finite dimensionality of the space of polyhedral harmonic functions. The theory involves not only analysis but also algebra and combinatorics, and has a rather different flavor from classical harmonic analysis. This paper aims at providing a survey on the subject, focusing on the author's recent results.