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New sequences of non-free rational points
Ilia Smilga1 
1 Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques et CNRS, 35 route de Chartres, 91440 Bures-sur-Yvette, France.
Comptes Rendus. Mathématique, Volume 359 (2021) no. 8, pp. 983-989.

We exhibit some new infinite families of rational values of τ, some of them squares of rationals, for which the group or even the semigroup generated by the matrices (1101) and  (10τ1) is not free.

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DOI: 10.5802/crmath.230

Ilia Smilga 1

1 Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques et CNRS, 35 route de Chartres, 91440 Bures-sur-Yvette, France.
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