Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Nachmias, Asaf, Peres, Yuval
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
Subjects:
Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05793
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1866911045215322112
author Nachmias, Asaf
Peres, Yuval
author_facet Nachmias, Asaf
Peres, Yuval
contents A nonnegative function on the vertices of an infinite graph G which vanishes at a distinguished vertex o, has Laplacian 1 at o, and is harmonic at all other vertices is called a potential. We survey basic properties of potentials in recurrent networks. In particular, we show that potentials are Lipschitz with respect to the effective resistance metric, and if the potential is unique, then there is a determinantal formula for the harmonic measures from infinity. We also infer from the von Neumann minimax theorem that there always exists a potential tending to infinity.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2507_05793
institution arXiv
publishDate 2025
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Potentials in recurrent networks: a survey
Nachmias, Asaf
Peres, Yuval
Probability
A nonnegative function on the vertices of an infinite graph G which vanishes at a distinguished vertex o, has Laplacian 1 at o, and is harmonic at all other vertices is called a potential. We survey basic properties of potentials in recurrent networks. In particular, we show that potentials are Lipschitz with respect to the effective resistance metric, and if the potential is unique, then there is a determinantal formula for the harmonic measures from infinity. We also infer from the von Neumann minimax theorem that there always exists a potential tending to infinity.
title Potentials in recurrent networks: a survey
topic Probability
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05793