Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
4588771 Journal of Algebra 2007 22 Pages PDF
Abstract

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 onto the aforementioned closures of respective groups.

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Physical Sciences and Engineering Mathematics Algebra and Number Theory