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Random walk on group extensions
We study random walks on various group extensions. Under certain bounded generation and bounded scaled conditions, we estimate the spectral gap of a random walk on a quasi-random-by-nilpotent group in terms of the spectral gap of its projection to the quasi-random part. We also estimate the spectral gap of a random-walk on a product of two quasi-random groups in terms of the spectral gap of its projections to the given factors. Based on these results, we estimate the spectral gap of a random walk on the -points of a perfect algebraic group in terms of the spectral gap of its projections to the almost simple factors of the semisimple quotient of . These results extend a work of Lindenstrauss and Varjú and an earlier work of the authors. Moreover, using a result of Breuillard and Gamburd, we show that there is an infinite set of primes of density one such that, if is a positive integer and is a perfect group and is a unipotent group, then the family of all the Cayley graphs of , , is a family of expanders.
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- PAR ID:
- 10595259
- Publisher / Repository:
- American Mathematical Society
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- Journal Name:
- Transactions of the American Mathematical Society
- ISSN:
- 0002-9947
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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