Random walks on nilpotent groups driven by measures supported on powers of generators
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Random walks on nilpotent groups driven by measures supported on powers of generators
zbMATH Open document ID: 1364.20018
DOI: 10.4171/GGD/335
author: Tianyi Zheng
author: Laurent Saloff-Coste
published in: Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics
publication date: 2016-01-08T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1211.3003
review text: Summary: We study the decay of convolution powers of a large family \(\mu_{S,a}\) of measures on finitely generated nilpotent groups. Here, \(S=(s_1,\dots,s_k)\) is a generating \(k\)-tuple of group elements and \(a=(\alpha_1,\dots,\alpha_k)\) is a \(k\)-tuple of reals in the interval \((0,2)\). The symmetric measure \(\mu_{S,a}\) is supported by \(S^*=\{s_i^{m}: 1\leq i\leq k, m \in \mathbb Z\}\) and gives probability proportional to \((1+m)^{-\alpha_i-1}\) to \(s_i^{\pm m}\), \(i=1,\dots,k\), \(m\in \mathbb N\). We determine the behavior of the probability of return \(\mu_{S,a}^{(n)}(e)\) as \(n\) tends to infinity. This behavior depends in somewhat subtle ways on interactions between the \(k\)-tuple \(a\) and the positions of the generators \(s_i\) within the lower central series \(G_{j}=[G_{j-1},G]\), \(G_1=G\).
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 20F18
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 20F65
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 60J10
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 60J50
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 60G50
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 20F05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 20F14
zbMATH DE Number: 6527622
zbMATH Keywords: random walk
zbMATH Keywords: stable laws
zbMATH Keywords: nilpotent groups
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
arXiv ID: 1211.3003
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