Edgeworth Expansions for Centered Random Walks on Covering Graphs of Polynomial Volume Growth

Abstract

Edgeworth expansions for random walks on covering graphs with groups of polynomial volume growths are obtained under a few natural assumptions. The coefficients appearing in this expansion depends on not only geometric features of the underlying graphs but also the modified harmonic embedding of the graph into a certain nilpotent Lie group. Moreover, we apply the rate of convergence in Trotter's approximation theorem to establish the Berry-Esseen type bound for the random walks.