Random walks and isoperimetric profiles of groups

Random walks and isoperimetric profiles of groups

Probability Seminar
Apr 15, 2015, 03:10 PM - 04:00 PM | 332 Evans Hall | Happening As Scheduled
Tianyi Zheng, Stanford University
Note that this talk will take place in 332, not 1011, Evans. Asymptotic behavior of random walks on a group, such as decay of return probability and growth of entropy, reflects large scale geometry of the underlying group. The notion of isoperimetric profiles, motivated by classical isoperimetric inequalities and Faber-Krahn inequalities, captures useful geometric information that affects...