On the relation between Gaussian measures and convolution semigroups of local type.
The main purpose of this paper is to exhibit the cutoff phenomenon, studied by Aldous and Diaconis [AD]. Let denote a transition kernel after k steps and π be a stationary measure. We have to find a critical value for which the total variation norm between and π stays very close to 1 for , and falls rapidly to a value close to 0 for with a fall-off phase much shorter than . According to the work of Diaconis and Shahshahani [DS], one can naturally conjecture, for a conjugacy class with...
The aim of this note is to describe the Poisson boundary of the group of invertible triangular matrices with coefficients in a number field. It generalizes to any dimension and to any number field a result of Brofferio concerning the Poisson boundary of random rational affinities.
Starting with the computation of the appropriate Poisson kernels, we review, complement, and compare results on drifted Laplace operators in two different contexts: homogeneous trees and the hyperbolic half-plane.