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A group of non-uniform exponential growth locally isomorphic to $ IMG(z^2+i)$

Author(s): Volodymyr Nekrashevych
Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 362 (2010), 389-398.
MSC (2000): Primary 20F69, 20E08; Secondary 37F20
Posted: July 17, 2009
MathSciNet review: 2550156
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Abstract: We prove that a sequence of marked three-generated groups isomorphic to the iterated monodromy group of $ z^2+i$ converges to a group of non-uniform exponential growth, which is an extension of the infinite direct sum of cyclic groups of order 4 by a Grigorchuk group.

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Volodymyr Nekrashevych
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-3368
Email: nekrash@math.tamu.edu

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9947-09-04825-9
PII: S 0002-9947(09)04825-9
Received by editor(s): February 25, 2008
Posted: July 17, 2009
Additional Notes: This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant DMS-0605019.
Copyright of article: Copyright 2009, American Mathematical Society
The copyright for this article reverts to public domain after 28 years from publication.




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