The Poisson formula for groups with hyperbolic properties

dc.creatorKaimanovich, Vadim A.
dc.date1998-02-15
dc.date2000-11-01
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T05:23:57Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T05:23:57Z
dc.descriptionThe Poisson boundary of a group G with a probability measure μis the space of ergodic components of the time shift in the path space of the associated random walk. Via a generalization of the classical Poisson formula it gives an integral representation of bounded μ-harmonic functions on G. In this paper we develop a new method of identifying the Poisson boundary based on entropy estimates for conditional random walks. It leads to simple purely geometric criteria of boundary maximality which bear hyperbolic nature and allow us to identify the Poisson boundary with natural topological boundaries for several classes of groups: word hyperbolic groups and discontinuous groups of isometries of Gromov hyperbolic spaces, groups with infinitely many ends, cocompact lattices in Cartan-Hadamard manifolds, discrete subgroups of semi-simple Lie groups.
dc.description34 pages, published version
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/math/9802132
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/math/9802132
dc.identifierAnn. of Math. (2) 152 (2000), no. 3, 659--692
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/76653
dc.subjectDynamical Systems
dc.subjectGroup Theory
dc.titleThe Poisson formula for groups with hyperbolic properties
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