We describe the full exit boundary of random walks on homogeneous trees, in particular, on free groups. This model exhibits a phase transition; namely, the family of Markov measures under study loses ergodicity as a parameter of the random walk changes. The problem under consideration is a special case of the problem of describing the invariant (central) measures on branching graphs, which covers a number of problems in combinatorics, representation theory, and probability and was fully stated in a series of recent papers by the first author [1]–[3]. On the other hand, in the context of the theory of Markov processes, close problems were discussed as early as 1960s by E. B. Dynkin.

Original languageRussian
Pages (from-to)86-96
Number of pages11
JournalFunctional Analysis and its Applications
Volume49
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 19 Apr 2015

    Scopus subject areas

  • Analysis
  • Applied Mathematics

    Research areas

  • Bratteli diagram, central measure, de Finetti’s theorem, dynamic Cayley graph, free group, homogeneous tree, intrinsic metric, Laplace operator, Markov chain, Martin boundary, pascalization, phase transition, Poisson-Furstenberg boundary, tail filtration

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