This paper compiles basic components of the construction of random groups and of the proof of their properties announced in [G10]. Justification of each step, as well as the interrelation between them, is straightforward by available techniques specific to each step. On the other hand, there are several ingredients that cannot be truly appreciated without extending the present framework. We sha...

This paper establishes the first four moment expansions to the order o(a^−1) of S_{t_{a}}^{prime }/sqrt{t_{a}}, where S_{n}^{prime }=sum_{i=1}^{n}Y_{i} is a simple random walk with E(Yi) = 0, and ta is a stopping time given by t_{a}=inf left{ ngeq 1:n+S_{n}+zeta _{n}>aright}‎ where S_{n}=sum_{i=1}^{n}X_{i} is another simple random walk with E(Xi) = 0, and {zeta _{n},ngeq 1} is a sequence of ran...