Large deviations for random walks on free products of finitely generated groups (Q2076594)

This paper is concerned with the theory of random walks on a class of finitely generated groups, and specifically to the investigation of the asymptotic properties of the distribution of the renormalized distance from the origin. The main result establishes the existence of the large deviation principle, with a proper convex rate function, for the distribution of the renormalized distance from the origin of a random walk on a free product of finitely generated groups, under a non-degeneracy assumption on the semigroup \(\Gamma\) generated by the support of a probability measure \(\mu\). From this result, it derives the same principle for nearest-neighbour random walks on regular trees.\\ The paper starts with the presentation of some preliminaries on random walks on finitely generated groups and reviewing some standard terminology from the theory of large deviations. This serves the purpose of provide the notation to be used, clarify the nature of the assumption imposed on the semigroup \(\Gamma\), and explains some general facts that are employed in the proof of the main result. At the end of the article, some ideas on possible generalizations of the main theorem are brought together, and some open questions and conjectures are formulated.