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Disorder, entropy and harmonic functions

Probability 2015-10-29 v2

Abstract

We study harmonic functions on random environments with particular emphasis on the case of the infinite cluster of supercritical percolation on Zd\mathbb{Z}^d. We prove that the vector space of harmonic functions growing at most linearly is (d+1)(d+1)-dimensional almost surely. Further, there are no nonconstant sublinear harmonic functions (thus implying the uniqueness of the corrector). A main ingredient of the proof is a quantitative, annealed version of the Avez entropy argument. This also provides bounds on the derivative of the heat kernel, simplifying and generalizing existing results. The argument applies to many different environments; even reversibility is not necessary.

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@article{arxiv.1111.4853,
  title  = {Disorder, entropy and harmonic functions},
  author = {Itai Benjamini and Hugo Duminil-Copin and Gady Kozma and Ariel Yadin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1111.4853},
  year   = {2015}
}

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Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/14-AOP934 in the Annals of Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aop/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)

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