Discrete Green Potentials with Finite Energy

Abstract

For a hyperbolic infinite network, it is well-known that Green potentials with finite energy are Dirichlet potentials. Conversely, if a Dirichlet potential has non-positive Laplacian, then it is a Green potential with finite energy. In this paper, we study whether a Dirichlet potential can be expressed as a difference of two Green potentials with finite energy. Comparisons of the Dirichlet sum of a function and that of its Laplacian play important roles in our study. As a by-product, we obtain a Riesz decomposition of a function whose Laplacian is a Dirichlet function.