Alternatives for pseudofinite groups.

DOI10.1515/JGT-2013-0006MaRDI QIDQ2869859zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Abderezak Ould Houcine, Françoise Point

Publication date 7 January 2014

Published in Journal of Group Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1205.3533

zbMATH Keywords

amenabilityfirst-order theory of finite groupsfree subsemigroupslocal embeddabilitynon-Abelian free subgroupspseudofinite groupssofic groupssuperamenabilityTits alternative

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Model-theoretic algebra (03C60) Applications of logic to group theory (20A15) Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07) Local properties of groups (20E25) Means on groups, semigroups, etc.; amenable groups (43A07)

Abstract: The famous Tits' alternative states that a linear group either contains a nonabelian free group or is soluble-by-(locally finite). We study in this paper similar alternatives in pseudofinite groups. We show for instance that an $alep{h}_0$-saturated pseudofinite group either contains a subsemigroup of rank $2$ or is nilpotent-by-(uniformly locally finite). We call a class of finite groups $G$ weakly of bounded rank if the radical $rad(G)$ has a bounded Pr"ufer rank and the index of the sockel of $G/rad(G)$ is bounded. We show that an $alep{h}_0$-saturated pseudo-(finite weakly of bounded rank) group either contains a nonabelian free group or is nilpotent-by-abelian-by-(uniformly locally finite). We also obtain some relations between this kind of alternatives and amenability.

Review text

Tits' alternative states that a linear group either contains a non-Abelian free group or is soluble-by-(locally finite). In this paper, the authors study alternatives for pseudofinite groups, i.e.\ groups satisfying the first-order theory of finite groups (or elementarily equivalent to a non-principal ultraproduct of finite groups). Using some uniform definability results, they show that an \(\aleph_0\)-saturated pseudofinite group either contains a free sub-semigroup of rank \(2\) or is nilpotent-by-(uniformly locally finite). They also obtain results about local embeddability (called \textit{approximability}), and relations between the non-existence of a free sub-(semi)-group of rank two and amenability and supramenability.

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