Equipped Graded Graphs, Projective Limits of Simplices, and Their Boundaries

In this paper, we develop a theory of equipped graded graphs (or Bratteli diagrams) and an alternative theory of projective limits of finite-dimensional simplices. An equipment is an additional structure on the graph, namely, a system of “cotransition” probabilities on the set of its paths. The main...

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Published in:Journal of mathematical sciences (New York, N.Y.) Vol. 209; no. 6; pp. 860 - 873
Main Author: Vershik, A. M.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: New York Springer US 09.09.2015
Springer
Subjects:
Algebra
Markov processes
Mathematics
Mathematics and Statistics
Martin Boundary
Path Space
Projective Limit
Bratteli Diagram
Choquet Simplex
ISSN:1072-3374, 1573-8795
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Summary:In this paper, we develop a theory of equipped graded graphs (or Bratteli diagrams) and an alternative theory of projective limits of finite-dimensional simplices. An equipment is an additional structure on the graph, namely, a system of “cotransition” probabilities on the set of its paths. The main problem is to describe all probability measures on the path space of a graph with given cotransition probabilities; it goes back to the problem, posed by E. B. Dynkin in the 1960s, of describing exit and entrance boundaries for Markov chains. The most important example is the problem of describing all central measures, to which one can reduce the problems of describing states on AF-algebras or characters on locally finite groups. We suggest an unification of the whole theory, an interpretation of the notions of Martin, Choquet, and Dynkin boundaries in terms of equipped graded graphs and in terms of the theory of projective limits of simplices. In the last section, we study the new notion of “standardness” of projective limits of simplices and of equipped Bratteli diagrams, as well as the notion of “lacunarization.”
ISSN:1072-3374
1573-8795
DOI:10.1007/s10958-015-2533-z