Seminar series
Date
Tue, 18 Jun 2019
Time
14:15 - 15:15
Location
L4
Speaker
Rachel Skipper
Organisation
Lyon

A group acting on a regular rooted tree has the congruence subgroup property if every subgroup of finite index contains a level stabilizer. The congruence subgroup problem then asks to quantitatively describe the kernel of the surjection from the profinite completion to the topological closure as a subgroup of the automorphism group of the tree. We will study the congruence subgroup property for a family of branch groups whose construction generalizes that of the Hanoi Towers group, which models the game “The Towers of Hanoi".

 

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