Bounded generation and linear groups

International Journal of Algebra and Computation

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 401-413

  Abért, Miklós ^a   Lubotzky, Alexander ^b   Pyber, László ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Bounded generation; Profinite groups; Representation theory of infinite groups

Indexed keywords

EID: 0348199251     PISSN: 02181967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218196703001493     Document Type: Article

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