{ "id": "math/0403197", "version": "v1", "published": "2004-03-11T18:11:57.000Z", "updated": "2004-03-11T18:11:57.000Z", "title": "Poisson boundary for finitely generated groups of rational affinities", "authors": [ "Sara Brofferio" ], "comment": "12 pages, 3 figures", "categories": [ "math.PR" ], "abstract": "The group of affine transformations with rational coefficients, $aff(Q)$, acts naturally on the real line, but also on the $p$-adic fields. The aim of this note is to show that all these actions are necessary and sufficient to represent bounded $\\mu$-harmonic functions for a probability measure $\\mu$ on $aff(Q)$ that is supported by a finitely generated sub-group, that is to describe the Poisson boundary.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2004-03-11T18:11:57.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "60B99", "60J50", "43A05", "22E35" ], "keywords": [ "poisson boundary", "finitely generated groups", "rational affinities", "probability measure", "affine transformations" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 12, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2004math......3197B" } } }