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 treeT 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 inT.
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Moran, G. Trees and the bireflection property. Israel J. Math. 41, 244–260 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02771724
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02771724