Contractive Automorphisms of Locally Compact Groups and the Concentration Function Problem

Journal of Theoretical Probability

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 967-989

  Jaworski, Wojciech ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Concentration functions; Contractive automorphisms; Locally compact groups; Random walks

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041731526     PISSN: 08949840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022666717516     Document Type: Article

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