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Computing Norms of Group-Invariant Transition Operators

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 September 2008

Laurent Saloff-Coste  and
Wolfgang Woess
Laurent Saloff-Coste
Affiliation:
CNRS, Statistique et Probabilités, Université Paul Sabatier, 31062 Toulouse Cedex, France
Wolfgang Woess
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Milano, Via Saldini 50, 20133 Milano, Italy
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Abstract

We consider transition operators P on a countable set, which are reversible, irreducible and invariant under a group G of permutations of X with compact point stabilizers. We relate the computation of the spectral radius (norm) of P with the spectral radii of certain matrices defined over the factor set G\X. In various cases, this allows easy computation of the norm of P.

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Research Article
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Combinatorics, Probability and Computing , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , June 1996 , pp. 161 - 178
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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