Anisotropic random walks on free products of cyclic groups, irreducible representations and idempotents of C*reg(G)

Abstract

Let be the free product of q + 1 copies of Zn+1 and let denote its Cayley graph (with respect to aj, 1 ≤ j ≤ q + 1). We may think of G as a group acting on the “homogeneous space” , This point of view is inspired by the case of SL2(R) acting on the hyperbolic disk and is developed in [FT-P] [I-P] [FT-S] [S] (but see also [C]).Since G is a group we may investigate some classical topics: the full (reductive) C* algebra, its dual space, the regular Von Neumann algebra and so on. See [B] [P] [L] [V] and also [H]. These approaches give results pointing up the analogy between harmonic analysis on these groups and harmonic analysis on more classical objects.