A Berry-Esseen theorem on semisimple Lie groups
A central limit theorem is proved on the space of positive definite symmetric matrices. To do this, some natural analogs of the mean and dispersion on are defined and investigated. One uses a Taylor expansion of the spherical functions on .
We give new and general sufficient conditions for a Gaussian upper bound on the convolutions of a suitable sequence K₁, K₂, K₃, ... of complex-valued functions on a unimodular, compactly generated locally compact group. As applications, we obtain Gaussian bounds for convolutions of suitable probability densities, and for convolutions of small perturbations of densities.
We establish the boundedness in spaces, 1 < q ≤ 2, of a “vertical” Littlewood-Paley-Stein operator associated with a reversible random walk on a graph. This result extends to certain non-reversible random walks, including centered random walks on any finitely generated discrete group.
We show that the norm of the random walk operator on the Cayley graph of the surface group in the standard presentation is bounded by 1/√g where g is the genus of the surface.