scholarly journals Simple error bounds for the QBD approximation of a special class of two dimensional reflecting random walks

Author(s):  
Hiroyuki Masuyama ◽  
Yutaka Sakuma ◽  
Masahiro Kobayashi
2002 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
pp. 301-334 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc Lindlbauer ◽  
Michael Voit

AbstractThe spherical functions of triangle buildings can be described in terms of certain two-dimensional orthogonal polynomials on Steiner's hypocycloid which are closely related to Hall-Littlewood polynomials. They lead to a one-parameter family of two-dimensional polynimial hypergroups. In this paper we investigate isotropic random walks on the vertex sets of triangle buildings in terms of their projections to these hypergroups. We present strong laws of large numbers, a central limit theorem, and a local limit theorem; all these results are well-known for homogeneous trees. Proofs are based on moment functions on hypergroups and on explicit expansions of the hypergroup characters in terms of certain two-dimensional Tchebychev polynimials.


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