The Poisson boundary of lampshuffler groups (Q6623331)

The paper under review is devoted to the study random walks on the semi-direct product \[\mathrm{Shuffler}(H)=\mathrm{FSym}(H) \rtimes H\] where \(H\) is an infinite countable group and \(\mathrm{FSym}(H)\) denotes the group of bijections from \(H\) to \(H\) that coincide with the identity map outside of a finite set. These groups are referred to as lampshuffler groups due to their resemblance to lamplighter groups and random walks on them are called mixer chains.\N\NThe author shows that for any step distribution \(\mu\) with a finite first moment that induces a transient random walk on \(H\), the permutation coordinate of the random walk almost surely stabilizes pointwise. The main result states that for \(H=\mathbb{Z}\), the above convergence completely describes the Poisson boundary of the random walk \(\big (\mathrm{Shuffler}(\mathbb{Z}), \mu \big )\).