Abstract
The group of automorphisms of a tree (partially ordered set where the set of predecessors of an element is well ordered) with no infinite levels enjoys the property that every member is a product of two elements of order ≦2. It is shown that this property-called the bireflection property-fails for some trees having infinite levels. In fact, every subtree of a tree T has the the bireflection property if and only if the tree of all zero-one sequences of length ≦ω with finitely many ones is not embeddable in T.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 244-260 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| Journal | Israel Journal of Mathematics |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue number | 3 |
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| State | Published - Sep 1982 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Mathematics