Aspects of convergence of random walks on finite volume homogeneous spaces.

We investigate three aspects of weak* convergence of the n-step distributions of random walks on finite volume homogeneous spaces $ G/\Gamma $ G / Γ of semisimple real Lie groups. First, we look into the obvious obstruction to the upgrade from Cesàro to non-averaged convergence: periodicity. We give examples where it occurs and conditions under which it does not. In a second part, we prove convergence towards Haar measure with exponential speed from almost every starting point. Finally, we establish a strong uniformity property for the Cesàro convergence towards Haar measure for uniquely ergodic random walks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]