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10 - Schreier Graphs of Grigorchuk's Group and a Subshift Associated to a Nonprimitive Substitution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 July 2017

Rostislav Grigorchuk
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Mathematics Department, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3368, USA
Daniel Lenz
Affiliation:
Mathematisches Institut, Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena, 07743 Jena, Germany
Tatiana Nagnibeda
Affiliation:
Section de Mathématiques, University of Geneva, 2-4, Rue du Lièvre, Case Postale 64, 1211 Genève 4, Suisse
Tullio Ceccherini-Silberstein
Affiliation:
Università degli Studi del Sannio, Italy
Maura Salvatori
Affiliation:
Università degli Studi di Milano
Ecaterina Sava-Huss
Affiliation:
Cornell University, New York
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