Piecewise automatic groups.

DOI10.1215/S0012-7094-06-13435-XzbMath1159.20019MaRDI QIDQ854587

A. G. Erschler

Publication date: 6 December 2006

Published in: Duke Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.dmj/1156771904

zbMATH Keywords

finitely generated groups; asymptotic entropy; amenable groups; finite state automata; simple random walks; Følner functions; groups of intermediate growth; piecewise automatic groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

20F50: Periodic groups; locally finite groups

20F05: Generators, relations, and presentations of groups

20F65: Geometric group theory

57M07: Topological methods in group theory

20F69: Asymptotic properties of groups

20E08: Groups acting on trees

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

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