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The Poisson boundary of wreath products

Group Theory 2026-03-11 v4 Dynamical Systems Probability

Abstract

We give a complete description of the Poisson boundary of wreath products AB=BABA\wr B= \bigoplus_{B} A\rtimes B of countable groups AA and BB, for probability measures μ\mu with finite entropy where lamp configurations stabilize almost surely. If, in addition, the projection of μ\mu to BB is Liouville, we prove that the Poisson boundary of (AB,μ)(A\wr B,\mu) is equal to the space of limit lamp configurations, endowed with the corresponding hitting measure. In particular, this answers an open question asked by Kaimanovich, and Lyons-Peres, for B=ZdB=\mathbb{Z}^d, d3d\ge 3, and measures μ\mu with a finite first moment.

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@article{arxiv.2310.10160,
  title  = {The Poisson boundary of wreath products},
  author = {Joshua Frisch and Eduardo Silva},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.10160},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

35 pages. Accepted in Comment. Math. Helv