Limit set of branching random walks on hyperbolic groups
Abstract
Let be a nonelementary hyperbolic group with a word metric and its hyperbolic boundary equipped with a visual metric for some parameter . Fix a superexponential symmetric probability on whose support generates as a semigroup, and denote by the spectral radius of the random walk on with step distribution . Let be a probability on with mean . Let be the branching random walk on with offspring distribution and base motion and the volume growth rate for the trace of . We prove for that the Hausdorff dimension of the limit set , which is the random subset of consisting of all accumulation points of the trace of , is given by . Furthermore, we prove that is almost surely a deterministic, strictly increasing and continuous function of , is bounded by the square root of the volume growth rate of , and has critical exponent at in the sense that for some positive constant . We conjecture that the Hausdorff dimension of in the critical case is almost surely. This has been confirmed on free groups or the free product (by amalgamation) of finitely many finite groups equipped with the word metric defined by the standard generating set.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2007.13267,
title = {Limit set of branching random walks on hyperbolic groups},
author = {Vladas Sidoravicius and Longmin Wang and Kainan Xiang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.13267},
year = {2020}
}