Random walks and heat kernels on graphs:

This introduction to random walks on infinite graphs gives particular emphasis to graphs with polynomial volume growth. It offers an overview of analytic methods, starting with the connection between random walks and electrical resistance, and then proceeding to study the use of isoperimetric and Po...

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Main Author: Barlow, M. T. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2017
Series:London Mathematical Society lecture note series 438
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Summary:This introduction to random walks on infinite graphs gives particular emphasis to graphs with polynomial volume growth. It offers an overview of analytic methods, starting with the connection between random walks and electrical resistance, and then proceeding to study the use of isoperimetric and Poincaré inequalities. The book presents rough isometries and looks at the properties of a graph that are stable under these transformations. Applications include the 'type problem': determining whether a graph is transient or recurrent. The final chapters show how geometric properties of the graph can be used to establish heat kernel bounds, that is, bounds on the transition probabilities of the random walk, and it is proved that Gaussian bounds hold for graphs that are roughly isometric to Euclidean space. Aimed at graduate students in mathematics, the book is also useful for researchers as a reference for results that are hard to find elsewhere
Item Description:Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Mar 2017)
Physical Description:1 online resource (xi, 226 pages)
ISBN:9781107415690
DOI:10.1017/9781107415690

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