Mathematics – Probability
Scientific paper
2010-12-13
Mathematics
Probability
Ph.D thesis, 122 pages, Graz University of Technology, October 2010
Scientific paper
The main purpose of this thesis is to study the interplay between geometric properties of infinite graphs and analytic and probabilistic objects such as transition operators, harmonic functions and random walks on these graphs. For a transient random walk, there are several problems one is interested in: for instance to study its convergence, to describe the bounded harmonic functions for the random walk, to describe its Poisson boundary, or to study the parameter of exponential decay of the transition probabilities of the random walk. In the first part of the thesis we deal with similar problems in the context of random walks on the so-called lamplighter graphs, which are wreath products of graphs. The convergence and the Poisson boundary of lamplighter random walks is studied for different underlying graphs, and the used methods are mostly of a geometrical nature. In the second part of the thesis we consider Markov chains on directed, labelled graphs. With such graphs we associate in a natural way a class of infinite languages (sets of labels of paths in the graph) and we study the growth sensitivity (or entropy sensitivity) of these languages using Markov chains.
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