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The arithmetic of a semigroup of series of Walsh functions

Part of: Abstract harmonic analysis Probability theory on algebraic and topological structures Nontrigonometric harmonic analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2009

I. P. Il'inskaya
I. P. Il'inskaya
Affiliation:
Kharkov State University Department of Mathematics 4 Svobody Square 310077 KharkovUkraine e-mail: iljinskii@ilt.kharkov.ua
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Abstract

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Let be the classical system of the Walsh functions, the multiplicative semigroup of the functions represented by series of functions Wk(t)with non-negative coefficients which sum equals 1. We study the arithmetic of . The analogues of the well-known [ related to the arithmetic of the convolution semigroup of probability measures on the real line are valid in . The classes of idempotent elements, of infinitely divisible elements, of elements without indecomposable factors, and of elements without indecomposable and non-degenerate idempotent factors are completely described. We study also the class of indecomposable elements. Our method is based on the following fact: is isomorphic to the semigroup of probability measures on the groups of characters of the Cantor-Walsh group.

Keywords

probability measures on groupsKhinchin factorization theoremsinfinite divisibilityindecomposabilityWalsh functions

MSC classification

Secondary: 60B15: Probability measures on groups or semigroups, Fourier transforms, factorization 43A25: Fourier and Fourier-Stieltjes transforms on locally compact and other abelian groups 42C10: Fourier series in special orthogonal functions (Legendre polynomials, Walsh functions, etc.)
Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 68 , Issue 3 , June 2000 , pp. 365 - 378
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 2000

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