On spectra of simple random walks on one-relator groups. With an appendix by Paul Jolissaint

DOI10.2140/pjm.1996.175.417zbMath0865.60059OpenAlexW1546723408MaRDI QIDQ1816507

Pierre-Alain Cherix, Alain Valette

Publication date: 15 December 1996

Published in: Pacific Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2140/pjm.1996.175.417

zbMATH Keywords

spectral radiusfundamental groupone-relator groupsimple random walksdirected Cayley graphclosed Riemann surfaceordinary Cayley graphspectra of the transition operators

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sums of independent random variables; random walks (60G50) Graph theory (05C99)

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