Endomorphic presentations of branch groups

Journal of Algebra

Volumn 268, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 419-443

  Bartholdi, Laurent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Branch group; Fractal group; Group presentation; L system; Schur multiplier

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242425107     PISSN: 00218693     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0021-8693(03)00268-0     Document Type: Article

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