Harmonicity of Gibbs measures

Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67) Entropy and other invariants, isomorphism, classification in ergodic theory (37A35) Abstract approximation theory (approximation in normed linear spaces and other abstract spaces) (41A65) Boundary theory for Markov processes (60J50)

Abstract: In this paper we extend the construction of random walks with a prescribed Poisson boundary to the case of measures in the class of a generalized Gibbs state. The price for dropping the

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-quasiconformal assumptions is that we must restrict our attention to CAT(

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) groups. Apart from the new estimates required, we prove a new approximation scheme to provide a positive basis for positive functions in a metric measure space.

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This paper is concerned with the question whether a given probability measure on a geometric boundary (of a group) arises as a measure defining a Poisson boundary, or at least arises as a harmonic measure. It extends earlier work of the authors. Let \(H\) be a \(\text{CAT}(-1)\) space, \(G\) be a group of isometrics acting cocompactly on \(H\) and \(\Phi: SH\to\mathbb{R}\) be a certain Hölder continuous function. Let \(\nu^\Phi\) denote the Gibbs measure for the geodesic flow. By disintegration, \(\nu^\Phi\) gives rise to a family of measures \(\nu^\Phi_p\), \(p\in H\), on the boundary \(\partial H\) of \(H\). The main theorem states that for any \(p\in H\) there exists a measure \(m_p\) on \(G\) such that \(\nu^\Phi_p\) is \(m_p\)-stationary and \((\partial H,\nu^\Phi_p)\) is the Poisson boundary of the random walk \((G,m_p)\). A slightly more general version in terms of harmonic convolutions is shown as well. The major part of the paper is used to prove the results.

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