Mixing Properties of Stable Random Fields Indexed by Amenable and Hyperbolic Groups

Abstract: We show that any stationary symmteric $\alpha$-stable ($S\alpha S$) random field indexed by a countable amenable group $G$ is weakly mixing if and only if it is generated by a null action, extending works of Samorodnitsky and Wang-Roy-Stoev for abelian groups to all amenable groups. This enables us to improve significantly the domain of a recently discovered connection to von Neumann algebras. We also establish ergodicity of stationary $S\alpha S$ fields associated with boundary and double boundary actions of a hyperbolic group $G$, where the boundary is equipped with either the Patterson-Sullivan or the hitting measure of a random walk, and the double boundary is equipped with the Bowen-Margulis-Sullivan measure.