Amenability via random walks
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We use random walks to show that the Basilica group is amenable, answering an open question of Grigorchuk and Żuk. Our results separate the class of amenable groups from the closure of subexponentially growing groups under the operations of group extension and direct limits; these classes are separated even within the realm of finitely presented groups.
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