On the Ritt property and weak type maximal inequalities for convolution powers on ell¹(Z)

In this paper we study the behaviour of convolution powers of probability measures $\mu$ on $\Z$, such that $(\mu(n))_{n\in \N}$ is completely monotone or such that $\nu$ is centered with a second moment. In particular we exhibit many new examples of probability measures on $\Z$ having the so called Ritt property and whose convolution powers satisfy weak type maximal inequalities in $\ell^1(\Z)$.