Boundaries and harmonic functions for random walks with random transition probabilities (Q702397): Difference between revisions

The authors study various notions of measure-theoretical boundaries associated with a random walk with random transition probabilities (RWRTP) and establish an analouge of the Poisson formula for (random) bounded harmonic functions. Under natural conditions on transition probabilities they identify these boundaries for several classes of groups with hyperbolic properties and prove the boundary triviality (i.e., the absence of non-constant random bounded harmonic functions) for groups of subexponential growth, in particular, for nilpotent groups. It is not known whether RWRTP on groups are always stable. However, under the finite first moment condition they explicitly identify the Poisson and the trial boundaries of RWRTP on discrete groups of isometries of non-positively curved spaces with natural geometric boundaries. Therefore, these RWRTP are stable.