The L¹ -Liouville Property on Graphs

Abstract In this paper we investigate the L¹ L 1 -Liouville property, underlining its connection with stochastic completeness and other structural features of the graph. We give a characterization of the L¹ L 1 -Liouville property in terms of the Green function of the graph and use it to prove its equivalence with stochastic completeness on model graphs. Moreover, we show that there exist stochastically incomplete graphs which satisfy the L¹ L 1 -Liouville property and prove some comparison theorems for general graphs based on inner–outer curvatures. We also introduce the Dirichlet L¹ L 1 -Liouville property of subgraphs and prove that if a graph has a Dirichlet L¹ L 1 -Liouville subgraph, then it is L¹ L 1 -Liouville itself. As a consequence, we obtain that the L¹ L 1 -Liouville property is not affected by a finite perturbation of the graph and, just as in the continuous setting, a graph is L¹ L 1 -Liouville provided that at least one of its ends is Dirichlet L¹ L 1 -Liouville.