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Scale-multiplicative semigroups and geometry: automorphism groups of trees

  • Udo Baumgartner

    University of Wollongong, Australia

  • Jacqui Ramagge

    University of Sydney, Australia

  • George A. Willis

    The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia
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Abstract

A scale-multiplicative semigroup in a totally disconnected, locally compact group is one for which the restriction of the scale function on is multiplicative. The maximal scale-multiplicative semigroups in groups acting 2-transitively on the set of ends of trees without leaves are determined and shown to correspond to geometric features of the tree.

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Udo Baumgartner, Jacqui Ramagge, George A. Willis, Scale-multiplicative semigroups and geometry: automorphism groups of trees. Groups Geom. Dyn. 10 (2016), no. 3, pp. 1051–1075

DOI 10.4171/GGD/376