The spectral measure of certain elements of the complex group ring of a wreath product

DOI10.1023/A:1020381532489zbMath1021.47014arXivmath/0107145MaRDI QIDQ1851080

Warren Dicks, Thomas Schick

Publication date: 15 December 2002

Published in: Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0107145

zbMATH Keywords

spectral measureMarkov operatorlamplighter groupwreath productAtiyah conjecture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Group rings of infinite groups and their modules (group-theoretic aspects) (20C07) Eigenvalue problems for linear operators (47A75) Algebraic topology of manifolds (57N65) Transcendental field extensions (12F20) Probability measures on groups or semigroups, Fourier transforms, factorization (60B15)

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