Texas A&M University, Department of Mathematics, 216 Milner Hall, 25th of November 2009, 3:00-3:50

Groups and Dynamics Seminar


Representation og groups acting on rooted trees by triangular matrices

Volodymyr Nekrashevych of Texas A&M University


We will discuss a representation of the automorphism group of the rooted binary tree by infinite unitriangular matrices over the field of two elements. We will consider its restriction to some self-similar groups: the adding machine, the Grigorchuk group, etc. The talk presents a joint work with Y. Leonov and V. Sushchansky.