Harmonic maps on amenable groups and a diffusive lower bound for random walks

DOI10.1214/12-AOP779zbMath1284.05250arXiv0911.0274OpenAlexW3102493546MaRDI QIDQ378807

James R. Lee, Yuval Peres

Publication date: 12 November 2013

Published in: The Annals of Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0911.0274

zbMATH Keywords

harmonic mapsrate of escaperandom walks on graphs

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Martingales with discrete parameter (60G42) Sums of independent random variables; random walks (60G50) Markov chains (discrete-time Markov processes on discrete state spaces) (60J10) Graphs and abstract algebra (groups, rings, fields, etc.) (05C25) Probabilistic potential theory (60J45) Probability measures on groups or semigroups, Fourier transforms, factorization (60B15) Probabilistic methods in group theory (20P05) Random walks on graphs (05C81)

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