Random normal subgroups of free profinite groups

DOI10.1515/JGTH.1999.015MaRDI QIDQ4239564zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Moshe Jarden, Alexander Lubotzky

Publication date 21 October 1999

Published in Journal of Group Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://semanticscholar.org/paper/277119a476c90861fbd69f89b82d8d8a69d4e749

zbMATH Keywords

free profinite groupsHaar measurenormal generationrandom generation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07) Limits, profinite groups (20E18) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Probabilistic methods in group theory (20P05)

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