Seminar series
Date
Tue, 02 Dec 2014
Time
17:00 -
18:00
Location
C2
Speaker
Alejandra Garrido
Organisation
Oxford
Groups which act on rooted trees, and branch groups in particular, have provided examples of groups with exotic properties for the last three decades. This and their links to other areas of mathematics such as dynamical systems has made them the object of intense research.
One of their more useful properties is that of having a "tree-like" subgroup structure, in several senses.
I shall explain what this means in the talk and give some applications.