Green's functions on fractals

For a regular harmonic structure on a post-critically finite (p.c.f.) self-similar fractal, the Dirichlet problem for the Laplacian can be solved by integrating against an explicitly given Green's function. We give a recursive formula for computing the values of the Green's function near the diagonal, and use it to give sharp estimates for the decay of the Green's function near the boundary. We present data from computer experiments searching for the absolute maximum of the Green's function for two different examples, and we formulate two radically different conjectures for where the maximum occurs. We also investigate a local Green's function that can be used to solve an initial value problem for the Laplacian, giving an explicit formula for the case of the Sierpinski gasket. The local Green's function turns out to be unbounded, and in fact not even integrable, but because of cancelation, it is still possible to form a singular integral to solve the initial value problem if the given function satisfies a Holder condition.