"MÜNCHHAUSEN TRICK" AND AMENABILITY OF SELF-SIMILAR GROUPS

DOI10.1142/S0218196705002694zbMATH Open1168.20308OpenAlexW2045706494MaRDI QIDQ3379477FDOQ3379477

Vadim A. Kaimanovich

Publication date: 6 April 2006

Published in: International Journal of Algebra and Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1142/s0218196705002694

zbMATH Keywords

random walksGrigorchuk groupamenabilityLiouville propertyasymptotic entropyself-similar groupsrooted treesinternal degrees of freedomBasilica groupiterated monodromy groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Markov chains (discrete-time Markov processes on discrete state spaces) (60J10) Sums of independent random variables; random walks (60G50) Groups acting on trees (20E08) Asymptotic properties of groups (20F69) Dynamical systems and their relations with probability theory and stochastic processes (37A50) Means on groups, semigroups, etc.; amenable groups (43A07) Probability measures on groups or semigroups, Fourier transforms, factorization (60B15)

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• Random walks on discrete groups: Boundary and entropy
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• The Poisson boundary of covering Markov operators
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• Poisson-Furstenberg boundary and growth of groups
• Dual graphs and modified Barlow-Bass resistance estimates for repeated barycentric subdivisions
• Behaviors of entropy on finitely generated groups
• Some topics in the dynamics of group actions on rooted trees.
• Distortion of imbeddings of groups of intermediate growth into metric spaces
• Diameters, distortion, and eigenvalues
• On amenability of automata groups.
• Amenability via random walks.
• Amenable groups without finitely presented amenable covers
• Asymptotic behaviors of random walks on countable groups
• Amenability and non-uniform growth of some directed automorphism groups of a rooted tree
• Blocks of monodromy groups in complex dynamics
• Homomorphisms to \(\mathbb R\) constructed from random walks
• Subshifts with slow complexity and simple groups with the Liouville property
• Self-similar groups and holomorphic dynamics: renormalization, integrability, and spectrum

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