Random Walks on Reductive Groups

• Introduction.- Part I The Law of Large Numbers.- Stationary measures.- The Law of Large Numbers.- Linear random walks.- Finite index subsemigroups.- Part II Reductive groups.- Loxodromic elements.- The Jordan projection of semigroups.- Reductive groups and their representations.- Zariski dense subsemigroups.- Random walks on reductive groups.- Part III The Central Limit Theorem.- Transfer operators over contracting actions.- Limit laws for cocycles.- Limit laws for products of random matrices.- Regularity of the stationary measure.- Part IV The Local Limit Theorem.- The Spectrum of the complex transfer operator.- The Local limit theorem for cocycles.- The local limit theorem for products of random matrices.- Part V Appendix.- Convergence of sequences of random variables.- The essential spectrum of bounded operators.- Bibliographical comments.

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