Endomorphisms of profinite groups.

DOI10.4171/GGD/238MaRDI QIDQ399429zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Colin D. Reid

Publication date 19 August 2014

Published in Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1112.3916

zbMATH Keywords

profinite groupssubgroups of finite indexAbelian pro-\(p\) normal subgroupscontinuous endomorphismsendomorphisms of groupsuniform pro-\(p\)-groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Limits, profinite groups (20E18) Automorphisms of infinite groups (20E36) Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07)

Abstract: We obtain some general restrictions on the continuous endomorphisms of a profinite group G under the assumption that G has only finitely many open subgroups of each index (an assumption which automatically holds, for instance, if G is finitely generated). In particular, given such a group G and a continuous endomorphism phi we obtain a semidirect decomposition of G into a 'contracting' normal subgroup and a complement on which phi induces an automorphism; both the normal subgroup and the complement are closed. If G is isomorphic to a proper open subgroup of itself, we show that G has an infinite abelian normal pro-p subgroup.

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