A study of the spectrum for certain kernels on a tree (Q2389040)

Summary: We study in this paper the spectrum of some kernels acting on a locally finite tree, in particular those associated to an anisotropic random walk on the tree with jumps of length 0, 1 or 2. Such a kernel is a function \(R\) on \(S\times S\) where \(S\) is the set of vertices of the tree, it acts on \(\ell'(S)\). We always assume the kernel \(R\) to be invariant under the action of a group \(\Lambda\) of automorphisms almost transitive on \(S\). This work generalizes results of A. Figà Talamanca and T. Steger who deal with homogeneous trees and a fixed group \(\Lambda\), simply transitive on \(S\); it shows the diversity of the spectrum depending on the invariance group.