Harmonic Dirichlet Functions on Planar Graphs

Abstract

Benjamini and Schramm (1996) used circle packing to prove that every transient, bounded degree planar graph admits non-constant harmonic functions of finite Dirichlet energy. We refine their result, showing in particular that for every transient, bounded degree, simple planar triangulation $T$ and every circle packing of $T$ in a domain $D$, there is a canonical, explicit bounded linear isomorphism between the space of harmonic Dirichlet functions on $T$ and the space of harmonic Dirichlet functions on $D$.