Instability of Liouville property for quasi-isometric Riemannian manifolds and reversible Markov chains (Q1080257)

The paper explains a method for modelling a manifold on a reversible Markov chain and exploits this modelling approach to construct two equivalent Riemannian metrics on a certain infinitely connected surface. These metrics are quasi-isometrically equivalent but are chosen in such a way that the space of bounded (and the cone of positive) harmonic functions is unstable under the change of metric - this space is trivial in the case of one metric but not for the other. The examples are based on a non-stationary walk on the free group on two generators, and on the instability of a property of sets called \(\omega\)- absorbing here (and in more abstract settings is equivalent to the complement being thin at \(\infty)\). There are still some interesting questions relating groups and \(\omega\)-absorbing sets which are open (at least to this author).