Speed of random walks, isoperimetry and compression of finitely generated groups

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We give a solution to the inverse problem (given a function, find a corresponding group) for large classes of speed, entropy, isoperimetric profile, return probability and $L_p$-compression functions of finitely generated groups of exponential volume growth.

• For smaller classes, we give solutions among solvable groups.
• As corollaries, we prove a recent conjecture of Amir on joint evaluation of speed and entropy exponents and we obtain a new proof of the existence of uncountably many pairwise non-quasi-isometric solvable groups, originally due to Cornulier and Tessera.
• We also obtain a formula relating the $L_p$-compression exponent of a group and its wreath product with the cyclic group for $p$ in $[1,2]$.