scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1329668

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Authors Simon Thomas

Publication date 17 July 2000

zbMATH Keywords

automorphism groupscardinal invariantschains of subgroupscofinalities of infinite permutation groupsinfinite products of finite simple groupsinfinite symmetric groupspcf theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ordered sets and their cofinalities; pcf theory (03E04) General theory for infinite permutation groups (20B07) Infinite automorphism groups (20B27)

Review text

Let \(G\) be a group which is not finitely generated. Then the cofinality of \(G\) is the least cardinal \(\lambda\) such that \(G\) can be expressed as the union of a chain of \(\lambda\) proper subgroups. The author surveys work on the cofinalities of infinite permutation groups. In particular, he discusses the infinite symmetric groups, automorphism groups of various relational structures, infinite products of finite simple groups, and the relationship with cardinal invariants of the continuum. Also, several open problems are pointed out. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0910.00039].

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