The Liouville and the intersection properties are equivalent for planar graphs

Itai Benjamini (Weizmann Institute Rehovot)
Nicolas Curien (ÉNS Paris)
Agelos Georgakopoulos (Weizmann Institute Rehovot)

Abstract


It is shown that if a planar graph admits no non-constant bounded harmonic function then the trajectories of two independent simple random walks  intersect almost surely.

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Publication Date: September 26, 2012

DOI: 10.1214/ECP.v17-1913

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