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December 5, 2012 4:10 pm (Wednesday)

Poisson Boundaries, Harmonic Functions and Random Walks on Groups (continued)

Darren Creutz, Vanderbilt University
Location: Stevenson 1432

I will present the construction of the Poisson Boundary of a group, originally defined by Furstenberg, and explain its various properties and applications. The Poisson Boundary can be thought of as the exit boundary of a random walk on the group and can be identified with the space of harmonic functions on the group. The first talk will focus on the construction of the Poisson Boundary and various results due primarily to Furstenberg and Zimmer about boundaries. The second talk will focus on the dynamical behavior of the boundary and its applications to ergodic theory.