A Short Proof of the Grigorchuk-Cohen Cogrowth Theorem

DOI10.2307/2047420zbMath0681.43004MaRDI QIDQ4730255

Ryszard Szwarc

Publication date: 1989

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2047420

zbMATH Keywords

growth; generating function; length; amenable groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

20F05: Generators, relations, and presentations of groups

43A05: Measures on groups and semigroups, etc.

22D25: (C^*)-algebras and (W^*)-algebras in relation to group representations

20E05: Free nonabelian groups

43A15: (L^p)-spaces and other function spaces on groups, semigroups, etc.

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

43A20: (L^1)-algebras on groups, semigroups, etc.

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Entropy of groups and subfactors, On problems related to growth, entropy, and spectrum in group theory

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