Point-shifts of Point Processes on Topological Groups

Abstract

This paper focuses on flow-adapted point-shifts of point processes on topological groups, which map points of a point process to other points of the point process in a translation invariant way. Foliations and connected components generated by point-shifts are studied, and the cardinality classification of connected components, previously known on Euclidean space, is generalized to unimodular groups. An explicit counterexample is also given on a non-unimodular group. Isomodularity of a point-shift is defined and identified as a key component in generalizations of Mecke's invariance theorem in the unimodular and non-unimodular cases. Isomodularity is also the deciding factor of when the reciprocal and reverse of a point-map corresponding to a bijective point-shift are equal in distribution. Next, sufficient conditions for separating points of a point process are given. Finally, connections between point-shifts of point processes and vertex-shifts of unimodular networks are given that allude to a deeper connection between the theories.