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A Note on Torsion Free Groups Generated by Pairs of Matrices

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

A. Charnow
A. Charnow*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, California State University, Hayward, California 94542
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Let and let Gm be the group generated by A and the transpose of A. The problem of determining complex numbers m such that Gm is a free group had been studied by several authors [1, 2, 3]. In this note we characterize those rational values of m for which Gm is torsion free.

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Research Article
Information
Canadian Mathematical Bulletin , Volume 17 , Issue 5 , February 1975 , pp. 747 - 748
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1975

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