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Conceptual explanation for why projection from sphere to cylinder is a volume-preserving map
@StevenLandsburg: David Speyer's answer is basically what I was looking for. Thanks!
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Probability that a random element of a group is trivial
@YCor: Telling me that "it is known" is not so helpful without a reference.
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Probability that a random element of a group is trivial
@HJRW: Thanks, that keyword gave me exactly what I want! The result I was looking for is contained in Woess, Wolfgang, Cogrowth of groups and simple random walks. Arch. Math. (Basel) 41 (1983), no. 4, 363–370.
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Probability that a random element of a group is trivial
@RW: Yes, that would be equivalent to my question. Thanks!
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Probability that a random element of a group is trivial
@BenjaminSteinberg: I'm not sure I follow. Those seem to be about random walks on the Cayley graph of a free group, and the relevant probabilities seem to decay to $0$. Do you mean that we should write $G = F_n/K$ and think about whether a random walk in $F_n$ will land in $K$? I will have to think more about what exactly the answers are saying, but if they do answer my question it seems that they will give the answer "no" rather than "yes", right?
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