The product replacement algorithm and Kazhdan’s property (T)

DOI10.1090/S0894-0347-00-00356-8zbMath0980.20078OpenAlexW1782159083MaRDI QIDQ2701703

Alexander Lubotzky, Igor Pak

Publication date: 19 February 2001

Published in: Journal of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1090/s0894-0347-00-00356-8

zbMATH Keywords

random walksfinite generating setsproduct replacement algorithmKazhdan's property(T)uniformly distributed random elements

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sums of independent random variables; random walks (60G50) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Markov chains (discrete-time Markov processes on discrete state spaces) (60J10) Graphs and abstract algebra (groups, rings, fields, etc.) (05C25) Probability measures on groups or semigroups, Fourier transforms, factorization (60B15) Probabilistic methods in group theory (20P05)

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