Chabauty limits of simple groups acting on trees

DOI10.1017/S1474748018000348MaRDI QIDQ6276116arXivWikidataFDO

Authors Pierre-Emmanuel Caprace, Nicolas Radu

Publication date 1 August 2016

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1017/S1474748018000348

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Groups acting on trees (20E08) Simple groups (20E32) Groups with a (BN)-pair; buildings (20E42) Geometric group theory (20F65) General properties and structure of locally compact groups (22D05)

arXiv classification

math.GR

Abstract: Let $T$ be a locally finite tree without vertices of degree $1$. We show that among the closed subgroups of $mathrmAut(T)$ acting with a bounded number of orbits, the Chabauty-closure of the set of topologically simple groups is the set of groups without proper open subgroup of finite index. Moreover, if all vertices of $T$ have degree $geq3$, then the set of isomorphism classes of topologically simple closed subgroups of $mathrmAut(T)$ acting doubly transitively on $partialT$ carries a natural compact Hausdorff topology inherited from Chabauty. Some of our considerations are valid in the context of automorphism groups of locally finite connected graphs. Applications to Weyl-transitive automorphism groups of buildings are also presented.

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