Estimates for simple random walks on fundamental groups of surfaces
Volume 72 / 1997
Colloquium Mathematicum 72 (1997), 173-193
DOI: 10.4064/cm-72-1-173-193
Abstract
Numerical estimates are given for the spectral radius of simple random walks on Cayley graphs. Emphasis is on the case of the fundamental group of a closed surface, for the usual system of generators.
