Abstract
We show that, as n goes to infinity, the free group on n generators, modulo
Funding source: National Science Foundation
Award Identifier / Grant number: DMS-1652116
Award Identifier / Grant number: DMS-1301690
Funding statement: This work was done with the support of an American Institute of Mathematics Five-Year Fellowship, a Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering, a Sloan Research Fellowship, a Vilas Early Career Investigator Award, and National Science Foundation grants DMS-1652116 and DMS-1301690.
Acknowledgements
We thank Nigel Boston, Persi Diaconis, Tullia Dymarz, Benson Farb, Turbo Ho, Peter Sarnak, Mark Shusterman, and Tianyi Zheng for helpful conversations. We thank Goulnara Arjantseva and the anonymous referee for feedback on an earlier version of this manuscript.
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