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GGS-groups over primary trees: Branch structures

Group Theory 2022-03-30 v2

Abstract

We study branch structures in Grigorchuk-Gupta-Sidki groups (GGS-groups) over primary trees, that is, regular rooted trees of degree pnp^n for a prime pp. Apart from a small set of exceptions for p=2p=2, we prove that all these groups are weakly regular branch over GG''. Furthermore, in most cases they are actually regular branch over γ3(G)\gamma_3(G). This is a significant extension of previously known results regarding periodic GGS-groups over primary trees and general GGS-groups in the case n=1n=1. We also show that, as in the case n=1n=1, a GGS-group generated by a constant vector is not branch.

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@article{arxiv.2202.09896,
  title  = {GGS-groups over primary trees: Branch structures},
  author = {Elena Di Domenico and Gustavo A. Fernández-Alcober and Norberto Gavioli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.09896},
  year   = {2022}
}

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14 pages

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