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

Abelian pro-\(p\) normal subgroupscontinuous endomorphismsendomorphisms of groupsprofinite groupssubgroups of finite indexuniform pro-\(p\)-groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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.

Review text

Let \(G\) be a profinite group with the property that \(G\) has finitely many open subgroups of index \(n\) for every integer \(n\) and let \(\varphi\) be a continuous endomorphism of \(G\). The author shows that \(G\) has a semidirect decomposition into a contracting normal subgroup and a complement on which \(\varphi\) induces an automorphism. More precisely \(\text{Con}(\varphi)=\{x\in G\mid\lim_{n\to\infty}\varphi^n(x)=1\}\) and \(\Phi_+(G)=\bigcap_{n\geq 0}\varphi^n(G)\) are closed subgroups of \(G\), \(G=\text{Con}(\varphi)\rtimes\Phi_+(G)\), the restriction of \(\varphi\) to \(\Phi_+(G)\) is an automorphism and \(\varphi^k(\text{Con}(\varphi))=\text{Con}(\varphi)\cap\varphi^k(G)\) for all \(k\geq 0\). In the particular case when \(\varphi\) is an injective endomorphism whose image is open in \(G\), \(\text{Con}(\varphi)\) is an open subgroup of a direct product of finitely many uniform pro-\(p\)-groups that are nilpotent and a residually nilpotent soluble group of finite exponent.NEWLINENEWLINE This has the following significative corollary: if there is a proper open subgroup of \(G\) that is isomorphic to \(G\) itself, then there exists a prime number \(p\) such that \(G\) contains an infinite Abelian pro-\(p\) normal subgroup.

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