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Random walks, word metric and orbits distribution on the plane

Dynamical Systems 2020-09-23 v1

Abstract

Given a countably infinite group GG acting on some space XX, an increasing family of finite subsets GnG_n and xXx\in X, a natural question to ask is what asymptotical distribution the sets GnxG_nx form. More formally, we define for a function ff over XX the sums Sn(f,x)=gGnf(gx)S_n(f,x)=\sum_{g\in G_n}f(gx) and ask whether exists a function Ψ(n):NR\Psi(n):\mathbb{N}\to\mathbb{R} such that the sequence Ψ(n)Sn(f,x)\Psi(n)S_n(f,x) converges. This is a delicate problem that was studied under various settings. We first show a full solution when elements are chosen using a carefully chosen word metric from a specific lattice in SL(2,Z)SL(2,\mathbb{Z}) acting on the circle. In addition, it is proven that the resulting measure is stationary with respect to a certain random walk and has a tight connection to a well studied function from the field of Diophantine approximations. We then proceed to study the asymptotic distribution problem when elements are chosen using a random walk over SL(2,R)SL(2,\mathbb{R}) acting on R2\mathbb{R}^2. We offer a variant of our initial problem which yields some surprising and interesting results.

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@article{arxiv.2009.10544,
  title  = {Random walks, word metric and orbits distribution on the plane},
  author = {Uriya Pumerantz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.10544},
  year   = {2020}
}