Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720
Steve Zelditch ; Department of Mathematics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218
Abstract:
Let be a discrete symmetric random walk on a compact Lie group with step distribution and let be the associated transition operator on . The irreducibles of the left regular representation of on are finite dimensional invariant subspaces for and the spectrum of is the union of the sub-spectra on the irreducibles, which consist of real eigenvalues . Our main result is an asymptotic expansion for the spectral measures
along rays of representations in a positive Weyl chamber , i.e. for sequences of representations , with . As a corollary we obtain some estimates on the spectral radius of the random walk. We also analyse the fine structure of the spectrum for certain random walks on (for which is essentially a direct sum of Harper operators).