Closed subgroups of the infinite symmetric group

Algebra Universalis

Volumn 55, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 137-173

  Bergman, George M ^a   Shelah, Saharon ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardinalities of orbits of stabilizers of finite sets; Equivalence relation on subgroups; Full permutation group on a countably infinite set; Subgroups closed in the function topology

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846817071     PISSN: 00025240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00012-006-1959-z     Document Type: Article

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