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Schreier’s formula for prosupersolvable groups

Mark Shusterman

Raymond and Beverly Sackler School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218196717500035Cited by:0 (Source: Crossref)

Abstract

We classify the finitely generated prosupersolvable groups that satisfy Schreier’s formula for the number of generators of open subgroups.

Communicated by B. Steinberg

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