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Free products of finitary linear groups

Author(s): Orazio Puglisi
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 124 (1996), 1027-1033.
MSC (1991): Primary 20E06, 20F29
MathSciNet review: 1327039
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Abstract: In this note we show that the free product of any family of groups which are finitary linear over fields of the same characteristic $p\geq 0$, is still finitary linear over a field of characteristic $p$.


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Additional Information:

Orazio Puglisi
Affiliation: Dipartimento di Matematica, Università degli Studi di Trento, I-38050 Povo (Trento), Italy
Email: puglisi@alpha.science.unitn.it

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-96-03364-3
PII: S 0002-9939(96)03364-3
Received by editor(s): October 5, 1994
Additional Notes: The author is a member of the G.N.S.A.G.A.
Communicated by: Ron Solomon
Copyright of article: Copyright 1996, American Mathematical Society




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