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Harmonic functions of general graph Laplacians

Metric Geometry 2013-09-18 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP Probability

Abstract

We study harmonic functions on general weighted graphs which allow for a compatible intrinsic metric. We prove an LpL^{p} Liouville type theorem which is a quantitative integral LpL^{p} estimate of harmonic functions analogous to Karp's theorem for Riemannian manifolds. As corollaries we obtain Yau's LpL^{p}-Liouville type theorem on graphs, identify the domain of the generator of the semigroup on LpL^{p} and get a criterion for recurrence. As a side product, we show an analogue of Yau's LpL^{p} Caccioppoli inequality. Furthermore, we derive various Liouville type results for harmonic functions on graphs and harmonic maps from graphs into Hadamard spaces.

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@article{arxiv.1303.7198,
  title  = {Harmonic functions of general graph Laplacians},
  author = {Bobo Hua and Matthias Keller},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1303.7198},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

20 pages. Added a section about harmonic maps into Hadamard spaces. Added a theorem for L^1 non-negative superharmonic functions in the stochastic complete case. To appear in Calc. Var

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