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Energy of harmonic functions and Gromov's proof of Stallings' theorem

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Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 26. Juli 2014
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Abstract

We provide details for Gromov's proof of Stallings' theorem on groups with infinitely many ends using harmonic functions. The main technical result of the paper is a compactness theorem for a certain family of harmonic functions.

Funding source: NSF

Award Identifier / Grant number: DMS-12-05312

This paper was motivated by numerous discussions with Mohan Ramachandran, to whom I am grateful for many valuable references and suggestions as well as the proof of Theorem 9.1. I am grateful to P. Li and W. Woess for useful remarks and references.

Received: 2014-6-21
Accepted: 2014-7-8
Published Online: 2014-7-26
Published in Print: 2014-9-1

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