Department of Mathematics,
University of California San Diego
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Math 295 - Mathematics Colloquium
Herbert Heyer
University of Tuebingen
The Liouville property of harmonic functions related to a random walk in a group
Abstract:
The classical Liouville property asserts that bounded harmonic functions on Euclidean space are necessarily constant. This property has been extended to $\mu$-harmonic functions related to a random walk $S$ in a locally compact group $G$ with defining measure $\mu$. In the present talk the dependence on $G$ and $\mu$, of the asymptotic entropy $h(G,\mu)$ of $S$, will be studied. The case $h(G,\mu)=0$ characterizes the Liouville property, and $h(G,\mu)>0$ leads to the well-known boundary theory of H. Furstenberg.
Host: Pat Fitzsimmons
December 3, 2015
2:00 PM
AP&M 6402
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