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VOL. 16 | 1987 The minimal Martin boundary of a Cartesian product of trees
Chapter Author(s) Massimo A. Picardello, Peter Sjögren
Editor(s) Michael Cowling, Christopher Meaney, William Moran
Proc. Centre Math. Appl., 1987: 226-246 (1987)

Abstract

On a tree, the Martin boundary for positive eigenfunctions of the "Laplacian" or other suitable difference operators is known to coincide with the natural boundary of the tree. In this survey, operators on a finite product of trees are considered. Old and new results are described. In the case when all the trees are homogeneous, we let the operator be a positive linear combination of the Laplacians in the factor trees. If at least one of the trees is not $\mathbb{Z}$, the corresponding Martin boundary is nontrivial for all sufficiently large eigenvalues, and is given as the product of the natural boundaries of the trees times a hyper surface which depends on the eigemalue. The situation is similar to that of a polydisc. There is a pointwise convergence theorem at the boundary. For $\mathbb{Z}^n$ however, the boundary is a one-point set. To get a nontrivial boundary here, one can consider instead an operator with drift.

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Published: 1 January 1987
First available in Project Euclid: 18 November 2014

zbMATH: 0664.60074
MathSciNet: MR954000

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