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We go back and forth between, on the one hand, presentations of arithmetic and Kac-Moody groups and, on the other hand, presentations of profinite groups, deducing along the way new results on both.
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CAPDEBOSCQ, I., LUBOTZKY, A. & RÉMY, B. PRESENTATIONS: FROM KAC-MOODY GROUPS TO PROFINITE AND BACK. Transformation Groups 21, 929–951 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00031-016-9411-8
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