A Short Proof of the Grigorchuk-Cohen Cogrowth Theorem

DOI10.2307/2047420zbMath0681.43004OpenAlexW4234521671MaRDI QIDQ4730255

Ryszard Szwarc

Publication date: 1989

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

zbMATH Keywords

growthgenerating functionlengthamenable groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Measures on groups and semigroups, etc. (43A05) (C^*)-algebras and (W^*)-algebras in relation to group representations (22D25) Free nonabelian groups (20E05) (L^p)-spaces and other function spaces on groups, semigroups, etc. (43A15) Means on groups, semigroups, etc.; amenable groups (43A07) (L^1)-algebras on groups, semigroups, etc. (43A20)

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