Product growth and mixing in finite groups

Proceedings of the Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 248-257

  Babai, László ^a   Nikolov, Nikolay ^b   Pyber, Laszlo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c ALFRÉD RÉNYI INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAYLEY GRAPHS; COMBINATORICS; FINITE GROUPS; GROUP REPRESENTATION; GROUP THEORY; PRODUCT GROWTH; RAPID MIXING; SIMPLE GROUPS; UNIFOR M DISTRIBUTION;

ALGEBRA; CONVOLUTION; GRAPH THEORY; GROWTH (MATERIALS); IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LINEAR ALGEBRA; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; PROGRAMMING THEORY; SONOLUMINESCENCE; YTTRIUM ALLOYS;

GROUP TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 58449095230     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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