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Lower estimates for random walks on a class of amenable p-adic groups

Mustapha Sami, Université Paris 6


Abstract
We give central lower estimates for the transition kernels corresponding to symmetric random walks on certain amenable p-adic groups.


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Pages: 1513-1531

Published on: July 2, 2009


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