Algebraically recurrent random walks on groups

Itai Benjamini (Weizmann)
Hilary Finucane (MIT)
Romain Tessera (ÉNS Lyon)

Abstract


Initial steps are presented towards understanding which finitely generated groups are almost surely generated as a semigroup by the path of a random walk on the group.

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Publication Date: April 15, 2013

DOI: 10.1214/ECP.v18-2519

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