Commutators and commutator subgroups in profinite groups

DOI10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2016.11.001MaRDI QIDQ502715zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Cristina Acciarri, Pavel Shumyatsky

Publication date 6 January 2017

Published in Journal of Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.5034

zbMATH Keywords

commutatorsprocyclic subgroupsprofinite groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Limits, profinite groups (20E18) Commutator calculus (20F12) Derived series, central series, and generalizations for groups (20F14)

Abstract: Let $G$ be a profinite group. We prove that the commutator subgroup $G^{\prime }$ is finite-by-procyclic if and only if the set of all commutators of $G$ is contained in a union of countably many procyclic subgroups.

Review text

A covering of a group \(G\) is a family \(\{S_i\}_{i\in I}\) of subsets of \(G\) such that \(G=\bigcup_{i\in I}\,S_i\). When a group \(G\) is covered by finitely many subgroups, it is natural to expect that some structural information about \(G\) can be deduced from the properties of the covering subgroups. In recent years, some ``commutator variations of the above questions became a subject of research activity. When the set of all commutators in a group \(G\) is contained in a union of finitely many subgroups, it is natural to ask whether the structure of the commutator subgroup \(G'\) depends on the properties of the covering subgroups. The questions of this kind become even more intriguing when the groups are profinite. In that case, the interplay of algebraic and topological considerations adds a new quality to the obtained results. By Baire's category theorem if a profinite group is covered by countably many subgroups, then at least one of the subgroups is open. Thus, in case of profinite groups one can successfully deal with problems on countable coverings rather than just finite ones. A survey of results in this direction can be found in [the authors, Rend. Semin. Mat. Univ. Padova 137, 237--257 (2017; Zbl 1393.20012)]. The main result in the article under review is the following theorem. Theorem 1.1. The commutator subgroup of a profinite group \(G\) is finite-by-procyclic if and only if the set of all commutators of \(G\) is contained in a union of countably many procyclic subgroups.

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