%0 Journal Article %T Estimates for simple random walks on fundamental groups of surfaces %A Laurent Bartholdi %A Serge Cantat %A Tullio Ceccherini-Silberstein %A Pierre de la Harpe %J Mathematics %D 2006 %I arXiv %X Numerical estimates are given for the spectral radius of simple random walks on Cayley graphs. Emphasis is on the case of the fundamental group of a closed surface, for the usual system of generators. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0612409v1