The twisted twin of the grigorchuk group

International Journal of Algebra and Computation

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 465-488

  Bartholdi, Laurent ^a   Siegenthaler, Olivier ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b Departement Mathematik   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

automata group; congruence property; endomorphic presentation; group acting on tree; just infinite group; Schur multiplier; Self similar group; torsion group

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954566911     PISSN: 02181967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218196710005728     Document Type: Article

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