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Every group has a terminating transfinite automorphism tower

Author(s): Joel David Hamkins
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 126 (1998), 3223-3226.
MSC (1991): Primary 20E36, 20F28
MathSciNet review: 1487370
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Abstract: Iteratively taking the automorphism group of any group leads, transfinitely, to a fixed point.


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Simon Thomas, The automorphism tower problem II, to appear in Israel J. Math.

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Joel David Hamkins
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, City University of New York, College of Staten Island, Staten Island, New York 10314
Email: hamkins@integral.math.csi.cuny.edu

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-98-04797-2
PII: S 0002-9939(98)04797-2
Received by editor(s): April 9, 1997
Additional Notes: The author's research has been supported in part by a grant from the PSC-CUNY Research Foundation. He would like to thank both Daniel Seabold and Daniel Velleman for pointing out a simplification in the proof.
Communicated by: Ronald M. Solomon
Copyright of article: Copyright 1998, American Mathematical Society




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