## Electronic Communications in Probability

### Recurrence of multiply-ended planar triangulations

#### Abstract

In this note we show that a bounded degree planar triangulation is recurrent if and only if the set of accumulation points of some/any circle packing of it is polar (that is, planar Brownian motion avoids it with probability $1$). This generalizes a theorem of He and Schramm [6] who proved it when the set of accumulation points is either empty or a Jordan curve, in which case the graph has one end. We also show that this statement holds for any straight-line embedding with angles uniformly bounded away from $0$.

#### Article information

Source
Electron. Commun. Probab., Volume 22 (2017), paper no. 5, 6 pp.

Dates
Accepted: 17 May 2016
First available in Project Euclid: 6 January 2017

https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ecp/1483671681

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.1214/16-ECP4418

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR3607800

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
1360.52013

Keywords
random walk circle packing

#### Citation

Gurel-Gurevich, Ori; Nachmias, Asaf; Souto, Juan. Recurrence of multiply-ended planar triangulations. Electron. Commun. Probab. 22 (2017), paper no. 5, 6 pp. doi:10.1214/16-ECP4418. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ecp/1483671681

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