Boundaries and Harmonic Functions for Random Walks with Random Transition Probabilities |
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Authors: | V A Kaimanovich Y Kifer B-Z Rubshtein |
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Institution: | (1) CNRS UMR 6625 (IRMAR), Université Rennes-1, France;(2) Institute of Mathematics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel;(3) School of Mathematics, Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel. E-mail: |
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Abstract: | The usual random walk on a group (homogeneous both in time and in space) is determined by a probability measure on the group. In a random walk with random transition probabilities this single measure is replaced with a stationary sequence of measures, so that the resulting (random) Markov chains are still space homogeneous, but no longer time homogeneous. We study various notions of measure theoretical boundaries associated with this model and establish an analogue of the Poisson formula for (random) bounded harmonic functions. Under natural conditions on transition probabilities we identify these boundaries for several classes of groups with hyperbolic properties and prove the boundary triviality (i.e., the absence of non-constant random bounded harmonic functions) for groups of subexponential growth, in particular, for nilpotent groups. |
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Keywords: | Random walk random transition probability harmonic function Poisson boundary |
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