We establish a dimension formula for the harmonic measure of a finitely supported and symmetric random walk on a hyperbolic group. We also characterize random walks for which this dimension is maximal. Our approach is based on the Green metric, a metric which provides a geometric point of view on random walks and, in particular, which allows us to interpret harmonic measures as quasiconformal measures on the boundary of the group.

We study the simple random walk X on the range of simple random walk on ℤ3 and ℤ4. In dimension four, we establish quenched bounds for the heat kernel of X and max0≤k≤n|Xk| which require extra logarithmic correction terms to the higher-dimensional case. In dimension three, we demonstrate anomalous behavior of X at the quenched level. In order to establish these estimates, we obtain several asymptotic estimates for cut times of simple random walk and asymptotic estimates for loop-erased random walk,...