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Semi-classical analysis of a random walk on a manifold

Spectral Theory 2010-02-02 v4 Probability

Abstract

We prove a sharp rate of convergence to stationarity for a natural random walk on a compact Riemannian manifold (M,g)(M,g). The proof includes a detailed study of the spectral theory of the associated operator.

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@article{arxiv.0802.0644,
  title  = {Semi-classical analysis of a random walk on a manifold},
  author = {Gilles Lebeau and Laurent Michel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0802.0644},
  year   = {2010}
}

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Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/09-AOP483 the Annals of Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aop/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)

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