Corrigendum and addendum to "Fixed-point-free elements of iterated monodromy groups" [Trans. of the American Mathematical Society Vol. 367, No. 3 (2015), 2023-2049]

TL;DR

This paper addresses a gap in a previous mathematical proof regarding fixed-point-free elements in iterated monodromy groups and points to new literature providing a complete proof.

Contribution

It identifies a flaw in an earlier proof and references subsequent work that successfully establishes the main results.

Findings

Identification of a gap in the original proof

Reference to new work providing a complete proof

Clarification of the corrected argument

Abstract

In this note we document a gap in an argument in the above paper, and point to new work in the literature giving a complete proof of the main result.