Lower estimates for random walks on a class of amenable \(p\)-adic groups (Q1039154)

Let \(G\) be a locally compact group. The author investigates the growth of \(\varphi_n(e)\) for the densities \(\varphi_n\) of convolution powers \(\mu^n\) of symmetric probability measures \(\mu\in M^1(G)\) with a Haar density \(\varphi\) satisfying certain regularity conditions. The main result of the paper is a lower bound of the kind \(\varphi_n(e)\geq C/n^{1+\varepsilon}\) for some (explicit) constant \(\varepsilon=\varepsilon(G)\) for amenable algebraic groups over the \(p\)-adic numbers fields. Moreover, for metabelian \(p\)-adic groups, also an upper bound of the same kind is derived.