Poisson boundaries of lamplighter groups: proof of the Kaimanovich–Vershik conjecture

  • Russell Lyons

    Indiana University, Bloomington, USA
  • Yuval Peres

    Kent State University, USA
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Abstract

We answer positively a question of Kaimanovich and Vershik from 1979, showing that the final configuration of lamps for simple random walk on the lamplighter group over is the Poisson boundary. For , this had been shown earlier by Erschler (2011). We extend this to walks of more general types on more general groups.

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Russell Lyons, Yuval Peres, Poisson boundaries of lamplighter groups: proof of the Kaimanovich–Vershik conjecture. J. Eur. Math. Soc. 23 (2021), no. 4, pp. 1133–1160

DOI 10.4171/JEMS/1030