English

Most actions on regular trees are almost free

Group Theory 2008-10-10 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

Let T be a d-regular tree (d > 2) and A=Aut(T), its automorphism group. Let G be a group generated by n independent Haar-random elements of A. We show that almost surely, every nontrivial element of G has finitely many fixed points on T.

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@article{arxiv.0810.1731,
  title  = {Most actions on regular trees are almost free},
  author = {Miklos Abert and Yair Glasner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.1731},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

16 pages, one figure, to appear in GGD

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