The strong Liouville property for a class of random walks

DOI10.1007/BF01297763MaRDI QIDQ749045zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors K. Bruce Erickson

Publication date 1990

Published in Monatshefte für Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://eudml.org/doc/178472

zbMATH Keywords

Liouville propertyMartin boundariespolynomial growth of bounded order

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sums of independent random variables; random walks (60G50)

Review text

We prove that a positive harmonic function for a symmetric or centered irreducible probability measure on a countable group of polynomial growth of bounded order must be a constant. Put another way, the random walks associated to such measures have trivial Martin boundaries.

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