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Semigroup real characters generated by quasicharacters

  • Gastão Bettencourt and Sérgio Mendes EMAIL logo
Published/Copyright: August 29, 2025
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Abstract

Let S be an infinite, finitely generated semigroup, endowed with a probability measure. Based on the work [A. Erschler and A. Karlsson, Homomorphisms to constructed from random walks, Ann. Inst. Fourier (Grenoble) 60 2010, 6, 2095–2113], we construct a real character of S using a random walk approach. In our construction, the word length used in Erschler and Karlsson’s work is replaced by a quasicharacter.

MSC 2020: 60B15; 20F65

Funding statement: The authors were partially supported by FCT (Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal), trough the research project UIDB/00212/2020 of CMA-UBI (Centro de Matemática e Aplicações, Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal).

Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank Jorge Almeida for a valuable exchange of emails. Thanks are also due to the anonymous referee whose suggestions helped to improve the paper.

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Received: 2025-03-13
Revised: 2025-04-22
Accepted: 2025-05-06
Published Online: 2025-08-29

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