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Harmonic Functions on Compactly Generated Groups

Group Theory 2022-01-13 v3

Abstract

A compactly generated group is noncompact if and only if it admits a nonconstant harmonic function (for some, equivalently for every, reasonable measure). This generalizes the known fact that a finitely generated group is infinite if and only if it admits a nonconstant harmonic function (for some, equivalently every, reasonable measure).

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@article{arxiv.2012.07948,
  title  = {Harmonic Functions on Compactly Generated Groups},
  author = {Darren Creutz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.07948},
  year   = {2022}
}