Constructing finitely presented simple groups that contain Grigorchuk groups

DOI10.1006/jabr.1999.7898zbMath0940.20034OpenAlexW2070866382MaRDI QIDQ1806103

Claas E. Röver

Publication date: 20 December 1999

Published in: Journal of Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:617bad85-7d20-4626-81c4-1ca9ece0ae24

zbMATH Keywords

torsion subgroupsGrigorchuk groupsinfinite finitely presented simple groupstorsion locally finite groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07) Simple groups (20E32) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05)

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