Free subgroups in groups acting on rooted trees

dc.creatorNekrashevych, Volodymyr
dc.date2008-02-18
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T09:21:40Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T09:21:40Z
dc.descriptionWe show that if a group $G$ acting faithfully on a rooted tree $T$ has a free subgroup, then either there exists a point $w$ of the boundary $\partial T$ and a free subgroup of $G$ with trivial stabilizer of $w$, or there exists $w\in\partial T$ and a free subgroup of $G$ fixing $w$ and acting faithfully on arbitrarily small neighborhoods of $w$. This can be used to prove absence of free subgroups for different known classes of groups. For instance, we prove that iterated monodromy groups of expanding coverings have no free subgroups and give another proof of a theorem by S. Sidki.
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0802.2554
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0802.2554
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/155105
dc.subjectGroup Theory
dc.subject20E08
dc.titleFree subgroups in groups acting on rooted trees
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