The Nottingham group

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The paper under review provides an extremely useful survey of the current knowledge about the so-called Nottingham group \(\mathcal N\), and of the techniques that have been used to investigate it. This group has been studied originally by group-theorists as a group of power series under substitution; see the papers by \textit{S.~A.~Jennings} [Can. J. Math. 6, 325-340 (1954; Zbl 0058.02201)], \textit{D.~L.~Johnson} [J. Aust. Math. Soc., Ser. A 45, No. 3, 296-302 (1988; Zbl 0666.20016)] and his Ph.D.\ student \textit{I.~O.~York} [Proc. Edinb. Math. Soc., II. Ser. 33, No. 3, 483-490 (1990; Zbl 0723.20010)]. \(\mathcal N\) can be also regarded, number-theoretically, as the group of wild automorphisms of the local field \(\mathbb{F}_q( (t))\); this approach has led among others to the striking result by the author, that every countably-based pro-\(p\) group can be embedded in \(\mathcal N\) [J. Algebra 196, No. 1, 101-113 (1997; Zbl 0883.20015)]. As the author notes, the Nottingham group on the one hand lends itself to detailed and computational investigations; on the other hand, it exhibits many interesting properties, thus providing many examples and counterexamples. This paper is a very handy reference for such an interesting object. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0945.00009].




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