Brownian motion, harmonic functions and hyperbolicity for Euclidean complexes (Q5947795)

The authors construct and study the Brownian motion on a particular class of singular manifolds, namely two-dimensional Euclidean complexes (simplicial complexes, each simplex of which is flat); such a manifold \(X\) is described by its faces, edges and vertices. The constructed process \(B_t\) is a planar Brownian motion inside each face, and when it hits an edge, it chooses with equal probability an adjacent face. If \(X\) is hyperbolic in the sense of Gromov, the authors prove that \(B_t\) converges to some random point on the Gromov boundary \(\partial X\). They deduce representation properties for positive or bounded harmonic functions.