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Free products of finitary linear groups
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by Orazio Puglisi
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 124 (1996), 1027-1033
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-96-03364-3
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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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Bibliographic Information
  • Orazio Puglisi
  • Affiliation: Dipartimento di Matematica, Università degli Studi di Trento, I-38050 Povo (Trento), Italy
  • Email: puglisi@alpha.science.unitn.it
  • 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 1996 American Mathematical Society
  • Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 124 (1996), 1027-1033
  • MSC (1991): Primary 20E06, 20F29
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-96-03364-3
  • MathSciNet review: 1327039