Abstract
AbstractLyons and Sullivan conjectured in Lyons and Sullivan (J. Differential Geom. 19(2), 299–323, 1984) that if p : M → N is a normal Riemannian covering, with N closed, and M has exponential volume growth, then there are non-constant, positive harmonic functions on M. This was proved recently in Polymerakis (Adv. Math. 379, 107552–107558, 2021) exploiting the Lyons-Sullivan discretization and some sophisticated estimates on the green metric on groups. In this note, we provide a self-contained proof relying only on elementary properties of the Brownian motion.
Funder
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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