Random walks on discrete groups: Boundary and entropy

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Publication:1100794


DOI10.1214/aop/1176993497zbMath0641.60009MaRDI QIDQ1100794

Vadim A. Kaimanovich, Anatoly M. Vershik

Publication date: 1983

Published in: The Annals of Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/aop/1176993497


60G50: Sums of independent random variables; random walks

22D40: Ergodic theory on groups

28D20: Entropy and other invariants

20F99: Special aspects of infinite or finite groups

60J50: Boundary theory for Markov processes

43A07: Means on groups, semigroups, etc.; amenable groups

60B15: Probability measures on groups or semigroups, Fourier transforms, factorization


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