Probabilistic Burnside groups

MaRDI QIDQ6440800zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Gil Goffer, Be'eri Greenfeld

Publication date 19 June 2023

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Cancellation theory of groups; application of van Kampen diagrams (20F06) Geometric group theory (20F65) Asymptotic properties of groups (20F69) Probabilistic methods in group theory (20P05)

Abstract: We construct probabilistic Burnside groups containing non-abelian free subgroups. These are finitely generated groups in which the probability that a random element, chosen uniformly from a finite ball in its Cayley graph or via a non-degenerate random walk, satisfies a group law of the form x^k=1 with probability is tending to 1. In particular, this answers an open question posed by Amir, Blachar, Gerasimova, and Kozma, and gives the first example of a finitely generated group which satisfies a group law with probability 1 - but does not satisfy any group law.

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