Arbitrary p-gradient values.

DOI10.1515/JGT-2013-0001MaRDI QIDQ2869862zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nathaniel Pappas

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/1207.4650

zbMATH Keywords

\(p\)-gradientsfinitely generated groupsmod-\(p\) homology gradientsnumbers of generatorspro-\(p\) completionsprofinite groupsrank gradientssubgroups of finite index

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Limits, profinite groups (20E18) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05)

Abstract: For any prime number p and any positive real number {alpha}, we construct a finitely generated group {Gamma} with p-gradient equal to {alpha}. This construction is used to show that there exist uncountably many pairwise non-commensurable groups that are finitely generated, infinite, torsion, non-amenable, and residually-p.

Review text

The absolute rank gradient of a finitely generated group \(G\) is defined by NEWLINE\[NEWLINE\text{RG}(G)=\inf_{[G:H]<\infty}(d(H)-1)/[G:H],NEWLINE\]NEWLINE where \(d(H)\) denotes the minimum number of generators of \(H\) and the infimum is taken over all finite index subgroups \(H\) of \(G\). The following conjecture is still open: for every positive real number \(\alpha\) there exists a finitely generated group \(G\) such that \(\text{RG}(G)=\alpha\).NEWLINENEWLINE The author of this paper proves the analogous question for the \(p\)-gradient: for any prime number \(p\) and any positive real number \(\alpha\) there exists a finitely generated group \(G\) such that the rank gradient of the pro-\(p\) completion of \(G\) is equal to \(\alpha\). This construction is used to show that there exist uncountably many pairwise non-commensurable groups that are finitely generated, infinite, torsion, non-amenable and residually-\(p\).

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