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Hall's universal group is a subgroup of the abstract commensurator of a free group

Hall's universal group is a subgroup of the abstract commensurator of a free group

P. Hall constructed a universal countable locally finite group U, determined up to isomorphism by two properties: every finite group C is a subgroup of U, and every embedding of C into U is conjugate in U. Every countable locally finite group is a subgroup of U. We prove that …