Self-similarity and Random Walks

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  • VADIM A. KAIMANOVICH
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This is an introductory level survey of some topics from a new branch of fractal analysis — the theory of self-similar groups. We discuss recent works on random walks on self-similar groups and their applications to the problem of amenability for these groups.

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تاریخ انتشار 2009