Time Regularity for Random Walks on Locally Compact Groups

Let G be a compactly generated, locally compact group, and let T be the operator of convolution with a probability measure μ on G. Our main results give sufficient conditions on μ for the operator T to be analytic in L ^p (G), 1 < p < ∞, where analyticity means that one has an estimate of form for all n = 1, 2, ... in L ^p operator norm. Counterexamples show that analyticity may not hold if some of the conditions are not satisfied.