SMS scnews item created by Haotian Wu at Tue 13 Sep 2016 0925
Type: Seminar
Distribution: World
Expiry: 8 Nov 2016
Calendar1: 14 Sep 2016 1200-1300
CalLoc1: Carslaw 535A
CalTitle1: Investigating the connections between the convergence properties of return probabilities and Folner sequences
Auth: haotianw@14-202-233-61.static.tpgi.com.au (hawu2800) in SMS-WASM
Geometry & Topology
Investigating the connections between the convergence properties of return probabilities and Folner sequences
Cameron Rogers (Newcastle)
Wednesday 14 September 2016, 12:00–13:00 in Carslaw 535A.
Please join us for lunch after the talk!
Abstract:
Amenability can be characterised in many ways. The connections between these characterisations are not always clear or explicit. In this talk I prove that for a finitely generated group a Folner sequence can be constructed directly from the distribution of a random walk.