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UBIQUITY OF FREE SUBGROUPS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2003

P. M. GARTSIDE
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh, [email protected]
R. W. KNIGHT
Affiliation:
Mathematical Institute, Oxford University, 24–29 St Giles, Oxford OXI 3LB, [email protected]
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Abstract

Necessary and sufficient conditions are given for a Polish topological group to be ‘almost free’. It is deduced that the existence of one free subgroup of a Polish group can lead to the existence of many free subgroups of maximal rank. Applications are given to permutation groups, profinite groups, Lie groups and unitary groups.

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Notes and Papers
Copyright
© The London Mathematical Society 2003

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