Minimal harmonic measure on 2D lattices (2409.00450v1)

Abstract: We study the harmonic measure (i.e. the limit of the hitting distribution of a simple random walk starting from a distant point) on three canonical two-dimensional lattices: the square lattice $\mathbb{Z}^2$, the triangular lattice $\mathscr{T}$ and the hexagonal lattice $\mathscr{H}$. In particular, for the least positive value of the harmonic measure of any $n$-point set, denoted by $\mathscr{M}_n(\mathscr{G})$, we prove in this paper that $$[\lambda(\mathscr{G})]^{-n+c\sqrt{n}} \le \mathscr{M}_n(\mathscr{G})\le [\lambda(\mathscr{G})]^{-n+C\sqrt{n}},$$ where $\lambda(\mathbb{Z}^2)=(2+\sqrt{3})^2$, $\lambda(\mathscr{T})=3+2\sqrt{2}$ and $\lambda(\mathscr{H})=(\tfrac{3+\sqrt{5}}{2})^3$. Our results confirm a stronger version of the conjecture proposed by Calvert, Ganguly and Hammond (2023) which predicts the asymptotic of the exponent of $\mathscr{M}_n(\mathbb{Z}^2)$. Moreover, these estimates also significantly extend the findings in our previous paper with Kozma (2023) that $\mathscr{M}_n(\mathscr{G})$ decays exponentially for a large family of graphs $\mathscr{G}$ including $\mathscr{T}$, $\mathscr{H}$ and $\mathbb{Z}^d$ for all $d\ge 2$.