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Generic groups acting on regular trees
Author(s):
Miklós
Abért;
Yair
Glasner
Journal:
Trans. Amer. Math. Soc.
361
(2009),
3597-3610.
MSC (2000):
Primary 20E08, 20E06;
Secondary 20B15
Posted:
March 3, 2009
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Abstract:
Let be a -regular tree ( ) and its automorphism group. We analyze a generic finitely generated subgroup of . We show that is free and establish a trichotomy on the closure of in It turns out that is either discrete, compact or has index at most in .
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Additional Information:
Miklós
Abért
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago, 5734 University Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60637
Yair
Glasner
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, 84105 Beer Sheva, Israel
DOI:
10.1090/S0002-9947-09-04662-5
PII:
S 0002-9947(09)04662-5
Received by editor(s):
March 8, 2007
Posted:
March 3, 2009
Additional Notes:
Part of this work was carried out at the Institute for Advanced Studies and supported by NSF grant DMS-0111298
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