%0 Journal Article %T Pattern closure of groups of tree automorphisms %A Zoran uni %J Bulletin of Mathematical Sciences %@ 1664-3615 %D 2011 %I Springer %R 10.1007/s13373-011-0007-2 %X It is shown that every group of automorphisms of a regular rooted tree that is defined by forbidding a set of patterns of size s + 1 is the topological closure of a self-similar, countable, regular branch group, branching over its level s stabilizer. As an application, it is shown that there are no infinite, finitely constrained, topologically finitely generated groups of binary tree automorphisms defined by forbidden patterns of size two. %K Closed self-similar groups %K Finitely constrained groups %K Patterns on trees %K Compact groups %K 20E08 %K 22C05 %K 37B10 %U http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13373-011-0007-2