Local limits and harmonic functions for nonisotropic random walks on free groups (Q1056966)

Nearest neighbour random walks on the homogeneous tree representing a free group with s generators \((2\leq s<\infty)\) are investigated. By use of generating functions and their analytic properties a local limit theorem is derived. A study of the harmonic functions corresponding to the random walk leads to properties that characterize the r-harmonic function connected with the local limits.