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The automorphism tower problem revisited

Logic 2007-05-23 v1 Group Theory

Abstract

It is well-known that the automorphism towers of infinite centreless groups of cardinality kappa terminate in less than (2^{kappa})^+ steps. But an easy counting argument shows that (2^{kappa})^+ is not the best possible bound. However, in this paper, we will show that it is impossible to find an explicit better bound using ZFC.

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@article{arxiv.math/0003120,
  title  = {The automorphism tower problem revisited},
  author = {Winfried Just and Saharon Shelah and Simon Thomas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0003120},
  year   = {2007}
}