The growth of the Green function for random walks and Poincaré series
Given a probability measure <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mi>μ</mml:mi> </mml:math> on a finitely generated group <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mi>Γ</mml:mi> </mml:math> , the Green function <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mrow> <mml:mi>G</mml:mi> <mml:mo>(</mml:mo> <mml:mi>x</mml:mi> <mml:mo>,</mml:mo> <mml:mi>y</mml:mi> <mml:mo>|</mml:mo> <mml:mi>r</mml:mi> <mml:mo>)</mml:mo> </mml:mrow> </mml:math> encodes many properties of the random walk associated with <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mi>μ</mml:mi> </mml:math> . Endowing <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mi>Γ</mml:mi> </mml:math> with a word distance, we denote by <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mrow> <mml:msub> <mml:mi>H</mml:mi> <mml:mi>r</mml:mi> </mml:msub> <mml:mrow> <mml:mo>(</mml:mo> <mml:mi>n</mml:mi> <mml:mo>)</mml:mo> </mml:mrow> </mml:mrow> </mml:math> the sum of the Green function <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mrow> <mml:mi>G</mml:mi> <mml:mo>(</mml:mo> <mml:mi>e</mml:mi> <mml:mo>,</mml:mo> <mml:mi>x</mml:mi> <mml:mo>|</mml:mo> <mml:mi>r</mml:mi> <mml:mo>)</mml:mo> </mml:mrow> </mml:math> along the sphere of radius <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mi>n</mml:mi> </mml:math> . This quantity appears naturally when studying asymptotic properties of branching random walks driven by <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mi>μ</mml:mi> </mml:math> on <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mi>Γ</mml:mi> </mml:math> . Our main result exhibits a relatively hyperbolic group with convergent Poincaré series generated by <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mrow> <mml:msub> <mml:mi>H</mml:mi> <mml:mi>r</mml:mi> </mml:msub> <mml:mrow> <mml:mo>(</mml:mo> <mml:mi>n</mml:mi> <mml:mo>)</mml:mo> </mml:mrow> </mml:mrow> </mml:math> .
Authors
- Longmin Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1741-9401)
- Matthieu Dussaule (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3829-3393)
- Wenyuan Yang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4730-3311)
Institutions
- Nankai University (CN)
- Beijing International Studies University (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Annales Henri Lebesgue
- Published
- 2025-12-12
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5802/ahl.256
- Primary Topic
- Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00