  In many recent studies on random walks with small jumps in the quarter plane,
it has been noticed that the so-called "group" of the walk governs the behavior
of a number of quantities, in particular through its "order". In this paper,
when the "drift" of the random walk is equal to 0, we provide an effective
criterion giving the order of this group. More generally, we also show that in
all cases where the "genus" of the algebraic curve defined by the kernel is 0,
the group is infinite, except precisely for the zero drift case, where
finiteness is quite possible.
