Profinite completions of some groups acting on trees
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Profinite completions of some groups acting on trees
We investigate the profinite completions of a certain family of groups acting on trees. It turns out that for some of the groups considered, the completions coincide with the closures of the groups in the full group of tree automorphisms. However, we introduce an infinite series of groups for which that is not so, and describe the kernels of natural homomorphisms of the profinite completions on...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Algebra
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0021-8693
DOI: 10.1016/j.jalgebra.2006.11.023