Fusion coefficients and random walks in alcoves

DOI10.1214/15-AIHP687zbMATH Open1402.17030arXiv1307.3830MaRDI QIDQ503075FDOQ503075

Authors: Manon Defosseux 

Publication date: 11 January 2017

Published in: Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré. Probabilités et Statistiques (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We point out a connection between fusion coefficients and random walks in a fixed level alcove associated to the root system of an affine Lie algebra and use this connection to solve completely the Dirichlet problem on such an alcove for a large class of simple random walks. We establish a correspondence between the hypergroup of conjugacy classes of a compact Lie group and the fusion hypergroup. We prove that a random walk in an alcove, obtained with the help of fusion coefficients, converges, after a proper normalization, towards the radial part of a Brownian motion on a compact Lie group.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.3830

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zbMATH Keywords

affine Lie algebraDirichlet problemhypergroupaffine Weyl groupdiscretized charactersfusion coefficientsrandom walk in an alcove

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Markov chains (discrete-time Markov processes on discrete state spaces) (60J10) Representations of Lie algebras and Lie superalgebras, algebraic theory (weights) (17B10) Kac-Moody (super)algebras; extended affine Lie algebras; toroidal Lie algebras (17B67) Simple, semisimple, reductive (super)algebras (17B20) Analysis on real and complex Lie groups (22E30)

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