Inaccessible groups and protrees (Q686022)

The author discusses how the theory of ends of groups needs to be modified to accommodate inaccessible groups and graphs. For this purpose it is necessary to introduce the concept of a protree, which can either be thought of as an inverse limit of trees or as a partially ordered set satisfying certain conditions. New examples are given of finitely generated inaccessible groups. In particular examples are given of an inaccessible 2-generator group and of a 1-transitive 4-regular inaccessible graph. Finally, it is shown that if a minimal nice protree \(P\) for a group \(G\) has finite edge stabilizers, then \(P\) has a realization as an \(\mathbb{R}\)-tree on which \(G\) acts by isometries.