{"@context":["https://w3id.org/fdo/context/v1",{"schema":"https://schema.org/","prov":"http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#","fdo":"https://w3id.org/fdo/vocabulary/"}],"@id":"https://fdo.portal.mardi4nfdi.de/fdo/Q796889","@type":"DigitalObject","kernel":{"@id":"https://fdo.portal.mardi4nfdi.de/fdo/Q796889","digitalObjectType":"https://schema.org/ScholarlyArticle","primaryIdentifier":"mardi:Q796889","kernelVersion":"v1","immutable":true,"modified":"2025-07-08T14:54:23Z"},"profile":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"ScholarlyArticle","@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q796889","name":"Limit theorems for certain branching random walks on compact groups and homogeneous spaces","headline":"Limit theorems for certain branching random walks on compact groups and homogeneous spaces","description":"scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3866270","url":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q796889","datePublished":"1983-00-00","author":[{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q173690"}],"publisher":[{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q107063"}],"identifier":{"@type":"PropertyValue","propertyID":"doi","value":"10.1214/AOP/1176993441","url":"https://doi.org/10.1214/AOP/1176993441"},"sameAs":["https://doi.org/10.1214/AOP/1176993441"],"comment":"Let G denote an Abelian compact group with Haar measure m. Consider random variables \\(X_ 0\\) and \\(Y_ 1,Y_ 2,..\\). taking values in G and random variables \\(I_ 1,I_ 2,..\\). such that each \\(I_ n\\) takes its values in the set \\(A_ n:=\\{0,1,...,n-1\\}\\) (\\(n\\geq 1)\\). Assume that these random variables are all independent, that \\(X_ 0\\) has distribution \\(\\nu\\) on G, each \\(Y_ n\\) has distribution \\(\\mu\\) on G and each \\(I_ n\\) a uniform distribution on \\(A_ n\\) (\\(n\\geq 1)\\). Define inductively the sequence \\(X_ 1,X_ 2,..\\). of random variables \\(X_ n:=X_{I_ n}\\cdot Y_ n\\) (\\(n\\geq 1)\\). The branching random walk \\((X_ n)_{n\\geq 1}\\) on G reduces to the underlying simple random walk on G if one puts \\(I_ n=n-1\\). It is further assumed that \\(\\mu\\) is not supported by any proper closed subgroup of G.    At first the author notes that the sequence \\((P_{X_ n})_{n\\geq 1}\\) of distributions \\(P_{X_ n}\\) of \\(X_ n\\) converges weakly to m. (Extension of the Kawada-Ito theorem to branching random walks). Thus the products \\(X_ 0\\cdot...\\cdot X_ n\\) will be spread out over G for large n. The author's aim in the paper under review is to study the fluctuations from m, i.e. the asymptotic behavior in distribution of the sequences \\((S_ n(f))_{n\\geq 1}\\) of sums \\(S_ n(f):=\\sum^{m}_{j=0}f(X_ j)\\) for \\(f\\in L^ 2(G,m)\\). In the special case \\(\\mu:=m\\) the sequence \\((S_ n(f))_{n\\geq 1}\\) is asymptotically normally distributed.    For arbitrary \\(\\mu\\) and real characters \\(\\gamma\\) of G it is shown that, if the Fourier transform \\({\\hat \\mu}\\)(\\(\\gamma)\\) of \\(\\gamma\\) has real part \\(<{1\\over2}\\), the sequence \\((n^{-1/2}S_ n(\\gamma))_{n\\geq 1}\\) converges in distribution to the normal random variable N(0,(1-2\\({\\hat \\mu}\\)(\\(\\gamma))\\)\\({}^{-1})\\) as \\(n\\to \\infty.\\)    Although the proof of this result is already rather technical, the author also achieves asymptotic results for arbitrary complex characters, under the assumption Re \\({\\hat \\mu}\\)(\\(\\gamma)\\)\\(={1\\over2}\\) (with the norming (n log n)\\({}^{-1/2}\\) instead of \\(n^{-1/2})\\), or more general functions \\(f\\in L^ 2(G,m)\\) instead of characters \\(\\gamma\\) of G, for arbitrary compact groups G, and finally for compact homogeneous spaces G/K with respect to compact subgroups K of G. In the latter case, however, the definition of a branching random walk has to be modified appropriately. A list of very interesting examples ranging from the Pólya-Eggenberg urn model to genetic branching on the sphere closes the paper."},"provenance":{"prov:generatedAtTime":"2025-07-08T14:54:23Z","prov:wasAttributedTo":"MaRDI Knowledge Graph"}}