Semi-classical analysis of a random walk on a manifold

Abstract

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

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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