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Characterisations of algebraic properties of groups in terms of harmonic functions
Matthew C.H. Tointon1 orcid
1University of Cambridge, UK
Groups, geometry, and dynamics, Tome 10 (2016) no. 3, pp. 1007-1049

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We prove various results connecting structural or algebraic properties of graphs and groups to conditions on their spaces of harmonic functions. In particular: we show that a group with a finitely supported symmetric measure has a finite-dimensional space of harmonic functions if and only if it is virtually cyclic; we present a new proof of a result of V. Trofimov that an infinite vertex-transitive graph admits a non-constant harmonic function; we give a new proof of a result of T. Ceccherini-Silberstein, M. Coornaert and J. Dodziuk that the Laplacian on an infinite, connected, locally finite graph is surjective; and we show that the positive harmonic functions on a non-virtually nilpotent linear group span an infinite-dimensional space.
DOI : 10.4171/ggd/375
Classification : 20-XX, 60-XX
Mots-clés : Discrete harmonic function, discrete Laplacian, random walk, Cayley graph, linear cellular automaton

Matthew C.H. Tointon  1

1 University of Cambridge, UK 
Matthew C.H. Tointon. Characterisations of algebraic properties of groups in terms of harmonic functions. Groups, geometry, and dynamics, Tome 10 (2016) no. 3, pp. 1007-1049. doi: 10.4171/ggd/375
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