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Applications of Liouville's theorem

I'm looking for "nice" applications of Liouville's theorem (every bounded entire map is constant) outside the area of complex analysis.

An example of what I'm not looking for : a non-constant entire function has dense image (this is essentially a corollary).

An example of the kind of thing I'm looking for : a complex matrix whose conjugacy class is bounded must be a homothety (if $A$ is such a matrix and $B$ is an other matrix, then $z \mapsto e^{-z B} A e^{z B}$ is entire and bounded hence constant, but its derivative at $0$ is $[A,B]$ : thus $[A,B]=0$). In a similar vein : a subalgebra of $M_n (\mathbb{C})$ on which the spectral radius is submultiplicative is simultaneously triangularizable.