Simplicity of some automorphism groups

Journal of Algebra

Volumn 342, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 40-52

  Macpherson, Dugald ^a   Tent, Katrin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automorphism groups; Fra ss limits; Polish groups; Simple groups

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960890946     PISSN: 00218693     EISSN: 1090266X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jalgebra.2011.05.021     Document Type: Article

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