A construction of the measurable Poisson boundary: from discrete to continuous groups

DOI10.1017/9781316576571.006zbMATH Open1373.60013arXiv1503.03333OpenAlexW1956993254MaRDI QIDQ5365545FDOQ5365545

Authors: Sara Brofferio 

Publication date: 6 October 2017

Abstract: Let $Gamma$ be a dense countable subgroup of a locally compact continuous group $G$. Take a probability measure $mu$ on $Gamma$. There are two natural spaces of harmonic functions: the space of $mu$-harmonic functions on the countable group $Gamma$ and the space of $mu$-harmonic functions seen as functions on $G$ defined a.s. with respect to its Haar measure $lambda$. This leads to two natural Poisson boundaries: the $Gamma$-Poisson boundary and the $G$-Poisson boundary. Since boundaries on the countable group are quite well understood, a natural question is to ask how $G$-boundary is related to the $Gamma$-boundary. In this paper we present a theoretical setting to build the $G$-Poisson boundary from the $Gamma$-boundary. We apply this technics to build the Poisson boundary of the closure of the Baumslag-Solitar group in the group of real matrices. In particular we show that, under moment condition and in the case that the action on $mathbfR$ is not contracting, this boundary is the $p$-solenoid.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.03333

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Probability measures on groups or semigroups, Fourier transforms, factorization (60B15)

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