Tortrat groups -- groups with a nice behavior for sequences of shifted convolution powers (Q1322498)

The author investigates the limit behaviour of shifted convolution powers of probabilities on topological groups. Starting point are the investigations of \textit{I. Csiszár} [Z. Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie Verw. Geb. 5, 279-295 (1966; Zbl 0144.395)] and \textit{A. Tortrat} [C. R. Acad. Sci., Paris 258, 3813-3816 (1964; Zbl 0126.338) and Ann. Inst. Henri Poincaré, N. Sér., Sect. B 2, 279-298 (1966; Zbl 0168.156)]. Hence, a locally compact group \(G\) is called Tortrat group \([G \in \text{TO}]\) if for all \(\mu \in {\mathcal P}(G)\), for all \((x_ n) \subseteq G\) such that \((x_ n^{-1} \mu x_ n)\) has an idempotent limit point \(\mu\) itself is idempotent. For this class of groups we have (Theorem 2.1): If the shifted powers \(\mu^ nx_ n\) converge to a probability measure, then there exists a compact subgroup \(H\), such that \(\mu^ n x^{-n} \to \omega_ H\) and \(Hx = xH\) for all \(x \in \text{supp} \mu\). The author studies systematically the properties of the class TO; especially the structure of compact subgroups of \(G \in \text{TO}\), the behaviour of TO with respect to monomorphisms, quotients, closed subgroups, finite extensions and projective limits. In \S 4 the author considers examples of TO-groups: SIN groups, discrete groups, Abelian groups, furthermore MAP groups and connected nilpotent groups are TO. (On the other hand e.g. affine groups do not belong to TO).