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Lower central series of a group of tree automorphisms

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The lower central series of the Grigorchuk 3-generated 2-group is described; the indices of the factors of this series are calculated. The nilpotent length and solvability length of the factors by congruence subgroups are determined.

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Translated fromMatematicheskie Zametki, Vol. 60, No. 2, pp. 225–237, August, 1996.

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Rozhkov, A.V. Lower central series of a group of tree automorphisms. Math Notes 60, 165–174 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02305180

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