Disorder, entropy and harmonic functions

Autor: Itai Benjamini, Gady Kozma, Hugo Duminil-Copin, Ariel Yadin
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Ann. Probab. 43, no. 5 (2015), 2332-2373
ISSN: 0091-1798
2332-2373
DOI: 10.1214/14-aop934
Popis: We study harmonic functions on random environments with particular emphasis on the case of the infinite cluster of supercritical percolation on $\mathbb{Z}^d$. We prove that the vector space of harmonic functions growing at most linearly is $(d+1)$-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.
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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