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Infinitely divisible probability measures on a discrete Gelfand pair

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2016

H. Heyer
H. Heyer*
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Universität Tübingen, Mathematisches Institut, Auf der Morgenstelle 10, 7400, Tübingen, Deutsche Bundesrepublik
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Infinitely divisible probability measures on discrete spaces admitting a commutative convolution have been studied in various frameworks. For generalized convolutions related to Delphic structures an important contribution was made by Gilewski and Urbanik in [5]. In [11] Schwartz based his detailed analysis on convolutions arising from orthogonal series. Both of these approaches can be included into the framework of discrete hypergroups chosen f.e. by Gallardo and Gebuhrer in [4]. The main result common to these sources is the fact that, roughly speaking, all infinitely divisible probability measures are of Poisson type. Although the double coset spaces of Gelfand pairs are commutative hypergroups admitting an extended harmonic anafysis, the analytic methods developed in the theory of Gelfand pairs (see Dieudonné [3] and Heyer [7]) provide a more direct access to specific results like the characterization of divisible (idempotent, infinitely divisible) measures. For discrete Gelfand pairs (and their double coset spaces) Letac and his school have achieved remarkable results (see Letac [8], [9] and the references therein). The still unpublished thesis [1] of S. Ben Mansoor contains much information about divisible probability measures on cubes. In our exposition we reprove Ben Mansoor’s main theorem 3.5.4 with additional care, and discuss the special case of the ra-dimensional cube which was the basic object of study already in Letac, Takács [10]. It turns out that the main obstacle to be overcome in establishing the Poisson representation of infinitely divisible probability measures is the presence of idempotent factors, a problem that has been excluded f.e. in the work [4] of Gallardo and Gebuhrer.

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Nagoya Mathematical Journal , Volume 116 , December 1989 , pp. 43 - 62
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Copyright © Editorial Board of Nagoya Mathematical Journal 1989

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