Abstract commensurators of groups acting on rooted trees

Geometriae Dedicata

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 45-61

  Röver, Claas E ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Automorphisms of trees; Commensurators; Finitely presented simple groups

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036410998     PISSN: 00465755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020916928393     Document Type: Article

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