A countable discrete group $G$ is said to be Choquet-Deny if it has a trivial Poisson boundary for every generating probability measure. We show that a finitely generated group $G$ is Choquet-Deny if and only if it is virtually nilpotent. Moreover, when $G$ is not virtually nilpotent, then the Poisson boundary is non-trivial for a generating measure that is symmetric and has finite entropy. For general countable discrete groups, we show that $G$ is Choquet-Deny if and only if none of its quotients have the infinite conjugacy class property. 查看全文>>