The combinatorial structure of the Hawaiian earring group

被引:64
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作者
Cannon, JW [1 ]
Conner, GR [1 ]
机构
[1] Brigham Young Univ, Dept Math, Provo, UT 84602 USA
关键词
Hawaiian earring; free subgroups; commutator; subgroup; abelianization; transfinite words; specker group; lambda-trees; lambda-metric;
D O I
10.1016/S0166-8641(99)00103-0
中图分类号
O29 [应用数学];
学科分类号
070104 ;
摘要
In this paper we study the combinatorial structure of the Hawaiian earring group, by showing that it can be represented as a group of transfinite,words on a countably infinite alphabet exactly analogously to the representation of a finite rank; free group as finite words on a finite alphabet. We define a big free group, similarly as the group of transfinite words on given set, and study their group theoretic structure. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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页码:225 / 271
页数:47
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