Closed subgroups of free profinite monoids are projective profinite groups

DOI10.1112/BLMS/BDN017MaRDI QIDQ3503965zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Benjamin Steinberg, John L. Rhodes

Publication date 11 June 2008

Published in Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0611896

zbMATH Keywords

closed subgroupsprofinite groupsprofinite monoidsprojective groupsprojective monoidspseudovarieties of groupspseudovarieties of monoids

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07) Quasivarieties and varieties of groups (20E10) Limits, profinite groups (20E18) Varieties and pseudovarieties of semigroups (20M07)

Abstract: We prove that the class of closed subgroups of free profinite monoids is precisely the class of projective profinite groups. In particular, the profinite groups associated to minimal symbolic dynamical systems by Almeida are projective. Our result answers a question raised by Lubotzky during the lecture of Almeida at the Fields Workshop on Profinite Groups and Applications, Carleton University, August 2005. We also prove that any finite subsemigroup of a free profinite monoid consists of idempotents.

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