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Connected reversible Mealy automata of prime size cannot generate infinite Burnside groups

Formal Languages and Automata Theory 2016-04-13 v1 Group Theory

Abstract

The simplest example of an infinite Burnside group arises in the class of automaton groups. However there is no known example of such a group generated by a reversible Mealy automaton. It has been proved that, for a connected automaton of size at most~3, or when the automaton is not bireversible, the generated group cannot be Burnside infinite. In this paper, we extend these results to automata with bigger stateset, proving that, if a connected reversible automaton has a prime number of states, it cannot generate an infinite Burnside group.

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@article{arxiv.1604.03270,
  title  = {Connected reversible Mealy automata of prime size cannot generate infinite Burnside groups},
  author = {Thibault Godin and Ines Klimann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.03270},
  year   = {2016}
}

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arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1409.6142