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Countable Primitive Groups

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We give a complete characterization of countable primitive groups in several settings including linear groups, subgroups of mapping class groups, groups acting minimally on trees and convergence groups. The latter category includes as a special case Kleinian groups as well as subgroups of word hyperbolic groups. As an application we calculate the Frattini subgroup in many of these settings, often generalizing results that were only known for finitely generated groups. In particular, we answer a question of G. Higman and B.H. Neumann on the Frattini group of an amalgamated product.

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Correspondence to Yair Glasner.

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T.G. partially supported by NSF grant DMS-0404557, Y.G. was supported by NSF grant DMS-0111298.

Received: January 2006, Revision: May 2006, Accepted: May 2006

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Gelander, T., Glasner, Y. Countable Primitive Groups. GAFA Geom. funct. anal. 17, 1479–1523 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00039-007-0630-y

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