Cuts, flows and gradient conditions on harmonic functions

Abstract

Reduced cohomology motivates to look at harmonic functions which satisfy certain gradient conditions. If $G$ is a direct product of two infinite groups or a (FC-central)-by-cyclic group, then there are no harmonic functions with gradient in $c_0$ on its Cayley graphs. From this, it follows that a metabelian group $G$ has no harmonic functions with gradient in $\ell^p$.