Texas A&M
University, Department of
Mathematics, 216 Milner Hall, 18th of February 2009, 3:00-3:50
Groups and Dynamics Seminar
On amenability of automata groups, II
Volodymyr Nekrachevych of Texas
A&M
University
We continue the proof of amenability of groups generated by bounded
automata. We will see how estimates of entropy of random walks and
self-similarity of groups can be used to prove amenability. The talk
will be independent from the previous part (except for the reduction
theorem, which will be formulated again).