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In this chapter we define and investigate the class of branch groups. This class has only recently been defined, but the first examples of groups with a branch structure appeared at the end of the 1970s and the beginning of the 1980s ([45] [13] [14], [24]).
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Grigorchuk, R.I. (2000). Just Infinite Branch Groups. In: du Sautoy, M., Segal, D., Shalev, A. (eds) New Horizons in pro-p Groups. Progress in Mathematics, vol 184. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1380-2_4
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