Brownian motion and harmonic functions on the class surface of the thrice punctured sphere (Q794351)

Equivalently to the case (see the preceding review, Zbl 0541.60075) of a twice punctured plane, consider a spherical Brownian motion X on a sphere punctured at 0,1,\(\infty\). This article exploits the geometry of the corresponding class surface to establish the transience of X (which is shown in the above article of T. J. Lyons and the first author by more probabilistic methods). It is also proved here that every positive harmonic function on the class surface is a constant.