The local limit conjecture for stable commutator length

Let GG be any finitely generated group, let SS be a finite symmetric generating set, and suppose that the space Q(G)Q(G) of homogeneous quasimorphisms modulo homomorphisms is finite dimensional and nonzero. Let gng_n be obtained by a length-nn random walk with respect to the uniform measure on SS, conditioned to lie in [G,G][G,G]. Local limit conjecture. For every ϵ>0\epsilon>0, there are positive constants a,ba,b, depending on ϵ\epsilon, such that

P(a<scl(gn)n<b)1ϵ{\mathbf P}\left(a<\frac{\operatorname{scl}(g_n)}{\sqrt n}<b\right)\ge 1-\epsilon

for n0n\gg0. This conjecture removes the finite-dimensional homology restriction from the preceding result and predicts square-root-scale stable commutator length under the stated hypotheses.

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Danny Calegari and Joseph Maher, “Statistics and compression of scl”, arXiv:1008.4952 (2013).

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