Random subgroups of linear groups are free.

DOI10.1215/00127094-1443493zbMath1239.20051arXiv1005.3445OpenAlexW2023382497MaRDI QIDQ649741

Richard Aoun

Publication date: 6 December 2011

Published in: Duke Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1005.3445

zbMATH Keywords

random walksfinitely generated non-virtually-solvable linear groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sums of independent random variables; random walks (60G50) Linear algebraic groups over arbitrary fields (20G15) Probability measures on groups or semigroups, Fourier transforms, factorization (60B15) Probabilistic methods in group theory (20P05)

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