Homeomorphism groups of commutator width one

Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 141, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1839-1847

  Tsuboi, Takashi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Commutator subgroup; Homeomorphism group; Uniformly perfect

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874212291     PISSN: 00029939     EISSN: 10886826     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-2012-11595-3     Document Type: Article

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