Actions of finitely generated groups on the universal Menger curve

Kawamura, Kazuhiro

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-01-06089-0

Actions of finitely generated groups on the universal Menger curve
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Abstract:

We prove that every finitely generated group acts effectively on the universal Menger curve.

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