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GGS-groups: order of congruence quotients and Hausdorff dimension

Group Theory 2011-08-12 v1

Abstract

If G is a GGS-group defined over a p-adic tree, where p is an odd prime, we calculate the order of the congruence quotients Gn=G/\StabG(n)G_n=G/\Stab_G(n) for every n. If G is defined by the vector e=(e1,...,ep1)\Fpp1e=(e_1,...,e_{p-1})\in\F_p^{p-1}, the determination of the order of GnG_n is split into three cases, according as e is non-symmetric, non-constant symmetric, or constant. The formulas that we obtain only depend on p, n, and the rank of the circulant matrix whose first row is e. As a consequence of these formulas, we also obtain the Hausdorff dimension of the closures of all GGS-groups over the p-adic tree.

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@article{arxiv.1108.2289,
  title  = {GGS-groups: order of congruence quotients and Hausdorff dimension},
  author = {Gustavo A. Fernández-Alcober and Amaia Zugadi-Reizabal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1108.2289},
  year   = {2011}
}

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