Harmonic functions on planar and almost planar graphs and manifolds, via circle packings (Q5961447)

The authors show that on any bounded valence transient planar graph there exists a nonconstant, harmonic, bounded Dirichlet function. If \(P\) is a bounded circle packing in \(\mathbb{R}^2\) whose contacts graph is a bounded valence triangulation of a disk, then, with probability 1, the simple random walk on \(P\) converges to a limit point. The authors define the notions of almost planar graphs and manifolds, and show that under the assumptions of transience and bounded local geometry these processes are nonconstant, bounded, Dirichlet functions.