Some examples of random walks on free products of discrete groups (Q1113161)

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    Some examples of random walks on free products of discrete groups (English)
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    1988
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    Let G be the free product of a family of discrete groups \(G_ j\), \(j\in J\), and let p be a probability measure on G, which is a convex combination of probabilities \(p_ j\) on \(G_ j\). The asymptotic behaviour of convolution products \(p^{*n}\) is investigated. It is known [see e.g. \textit{W. Woess}, Boll. Unione Mat. Ital., VI. Ser., B5 961-982 (1986; Zbl 0627.60012)] that under certain restrictions we have the behaviour \[ p^{*n}(x)\sim C(x)\rho^{-n} n^{-3/2}, \] \(\rho\) being the radius of convergence of the power series \(\sum p^{*n}(x)z^ n\). First the author reproves some of the results of Woess, showing that also \(n^{-\lambda}\)-laws (\(\lambda\neq 3/2)\) occur. Such examples are explicitely constructed: products of m copies of nearest neighbour random walks on \({\mathbb{Z}}^ r\), r-sufficiently large, or of symmetric random walks on free products of \({\mathbb{Z}}\), if the measures \(p_ j\) are not finitely supported.
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    random walks on trees
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    Plancherel measure
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    free product of a family of discrete groups
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    convolution products
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