Local limit theorem of Brownian motion on metric trees

Abstract

Let $\mathcal{T}$ be a locally finite tree whose geometric boundary has infinitely many points. Suppose that a non-amenable group $\G$ acts isometrically and geometrically on the tree $\mathcal{T}$. In this paper, we show that if the length spectrum is Diophantine, then there exists a continuous function $C$ on ${\mathcal{T}}^2$ such that the heat kernel $p(t,x,y)$ of $\mathcal{T}$ satisfies $$\underset{t\to \infty }{\lim }{t}^{3/2}{e}^{{\lambda }_{0}t}p(t,x,y)=C(x,y)$$ for any $x,y\in \mathcal{T}$. Here, ${\lambda }_0$ is the bottom of the spectrum of the Laplacian on $\mathcal{T}$.

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