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Branch actions and the structure lattice

Group Theory 2026-01-29 v2

Abstract

J. S. Wilson proved in 1971 an isomorphism between the structural lattice associated to a group belonging to his second class of groups with every proper quotient finite and the Boolean algebra of clopen subsets of Cantor's ternary set. In this paper we generalize this isomorphism to the class of branch groups. Moreover, we show that for every faithful branch action of a group GG on a spherically homogeneous rooted tree TT there is a canonical GG-equivariant isomorphism between the Boolean algebra associated with the structure lattice of GG and the Boolean algebra of clopen subsets of the boundary of TT.

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@article{arxiv.2409.01655,
  title  = {Branch actions and the structure lattice},
  author = {Jorge Fariña-Asategui and Rostislav Grigorchuk},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.01655},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

12 pages; published version, minor corrections

R2 v1 2026-06-28T18:32:16.620Z