On the number of universal sofic groups
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Abstract:
If $CH$ fails, then there exist $2^{2^{\aleph _{0}}}$ universal sofic groups up to isomorphism.References
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Additional Information
- Simon Thomas
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Rutgers University, 110 Frelinghuysen Road, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854-8019
- MR Author ID: 195740
- Email: sthomas@math.rutgers.edu
- Received by editor(s): August 15, 2009
- Received by editor(s) in revised form: November 6, 2009
- Published electronically: February 26, 2010
- Additional Notes: Research partially supported by NSF Grant DMS 0600940.
- Communicated by: Julia Knight
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The copyright for this article reverts to public domain 28 years after publication. - Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 138 (2010), 2585-2590
- MSC (2010): Primary 03C20, 03E35, 20F69
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-10-10280-9
- MathSciNet review: 2607888