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The first part of the article is devoted to a survey of some results by J. Bliedtner, G. Forst, A. Bendikov, Ch. Berg, A. Bendikov and L. Saloff-Coste, where potential theory on topological groups, in particular the connection between harmonic sheaves, Gaussian semigroups and elliptic second-order differential operators, is studied. The second part of the article is devoted to the so-called dichotomy problem. The authors discuss a group analog of the well-known classical result: Any two Gaussian distributions on the Euclidean space are either equivalent or singular. -- The authors formulate some interesting open problems in the article. Referee's remark. It should be observed that in the article by \textit{G. M. Feldman} [Theory Probab. Appl. 23, 529-542 (1978; Zbl 0421.60009)] the following result concerning dichotomy problems on groups was proved: Let \(X\) be a connected LCA group either of finite dimension or infinite dimensional containing no subgroup topologically isomorphic to the one-dimensional torus. Then any two Gaussian distributions on \(X\) are either equivalent or singular. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0914.00060].