Compactifications and algebraic completions of limit groups

DOI10.1007/S11854-010-0030-3MaRDI QIDQ628369zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jonathan Barlev, Tsachik Gelander

Publication date 10 March 2011

Published in Journal d'Analyse Mathématique (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0904.3771

zbMATH Keywords

algebraic completioncompactificationembeddinglimit groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Structure of general topological groups (22A05) Topological and differentiable algebraic systems (22A99)

Abstract: In this paper we consider the existence of dense embeddings of Limit groups in locally compact groups generalizing earlier work of Breuillard, Gelander, Souto and Storm [GBSS] where surface groups were considered. Our main results are proved in the context of compact groups and algebraic groups over local fields. In addition we prove a generalization of the classical Baumslag lemma which is a useful tool for generating eventually faithful sequences of homomorphisms. The last section is dedicated to correct a mistake from [BGSS] and to get rid of the even genus assumption.

Review text

There exist several equivalent definitions for limit groups. \textit{Z. Sela} introduced them in [``Diophantine geometry over groups. I:~Makanin-Razborov diagrams, Publ. Math., Inst. Hautes Étud. Sci. 93, 31--105 (2001; Zbl 1018.20034)] saying that limit groups are exactly those groups which have the same universal theory as finitely generated free groups. The authors give a survey on the different definitions of limit groups including the equivalent definition of finitely generated residually free groups. Their main topic is to consider nondiscrete embeddings of abstract limit groups into topological groups. More precisely, for example, it is shown that a locally compact group admitting a nondiscrete nonabelian free subgroup admits a nondiscrete copy of every nonabelian limit group. Furthermore, consider a nonabelian limit group \(L\) and a compact group \(G\) containing a nonabelian free group \(F\) of a special rank depending on \(L\). Then it is proved that \(G\) contains a subgroup isomorphic to \(L\) whose closure contains \(F\). There are presented several more interesting similar results dealing also with surface groups instead of free groups and embeddings into algebraic groups over local fields.

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