The congruence subgroup property for Aut F2: A group-theoretic proof of Asada's theorem

Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 327-353

  Bux, Kai Uwe ^a   Ershov, Mikhail V ^b   Rapinchuk, Andrei S ^b  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b University of Virginia   (United States)

Author keywords

Automorphism groups; Congruence subgroup property; Free groups

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952479392     PISSN: 16617207     EISSN: 16617215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4171/GGD/130     Document Type: Article

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