Graphs of bounded degree and the \(p\)-harmonic boundary (Q611877)

The author considers an infinite graph of bounded degree. One major example of such a graph is the Cayley graph of a finitely generated group. Let \(G\) be a graph of bounded degree. Fix \(p > 1\). Let \(S\) be a subset of the vertices of \(G\). A function \(f\) on \(S\) is called \(p\)-harmonic if the \(p\)-Laplacian \(\triangle_p f(x)=0\) for all \(x \in S\). In this paper, the author introduces the \(p\)-harmonic boundary of \(G\). The main result is a correspondence of the functions on the \(p\)-harmonic boundary to their \(p\)-harmonic bounded extensions on \(G\), provided that the boundary is finite. Then the author applies his result to relate the \(p\)-harmonic boundary of the Cayley graph of a finitely generated (infinite) group \(\Gamma\) to the first reduced \(l^p\)-cohomology of \(\Gamma\).