SPECTRAL ANALYSIS OF RANDOM WALK OPERATORS ON EUCLIDIAN SPACE COLIN GUILLARMOU AND LAURENT MICHEL Abstract. We study the operator associated to a random walk on Rd en- dowed with a probability measure. We give a precise description of the spec- trum of the operator near 1 and use it to estimate the total variation distance between the iterated kernel and its stationary measure. Our study contains the case of Gaussian densities on Rd. 1. Introduction Let ? ? C1(Rd) be a strictly positive bounded function such that dµ = ?(x)dx is a probability measure. Let h > 0 be a small parameter and Bh(x) be the ball of radius h and center x. We consider the natural random walk associated to the density ? with step h: if the walk is in x at time n, then the position y at time n+ 1 is determined by chosing y ? Rd uniformly with respect to the measure (1.1) th(x, dy) = ?(y) µ(Bh(x)) 1l|x?y|
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