Probabilistic Laws on Infinite Groups

Authors Gideon Amir, Guy Blachar, Maria Gerasimova, Gady Kozma

Publication date 18 April 2023

Extensions, wreath products, and other compositions of groups (20E22) Geometric group theory (20F65) Asymptotic properties of groups (20F69) Probabilistic methods in group theory (20P05) Probability measures on groups or semigroups, Fourier transforms, factorization (60B15)

Abstract: We study the probability that certain laws are satisfied on infinite groups, focusing on elements sampled by random walks. For several group laws, including the metabelian one, we construct examples of infinite groups for which the law holds with high probability, but the group does not satisfy the law virtually. On the other hand, we show that if an infinite group satisfies the law

x^{2} = 1

with positive probability, then it is virtually abelian.

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