New just-infinite pro-\(p\) groups of finite width and subgroups of the Nottingham group. (Q1881127)
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New just-infinite pro-\(p\) groups of finite width and subgroups of the Nottingham group. (English)
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4 October 2004
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The Nottingham group \(\mathcal N\) is the group of automorphisms of the ring of formal power series in \(t\) over the field \(\mathbb{F}_p\) with \(p\) elements, of the form \(t\mapsto t+\sum_{i\geq 1}a_it^{i+1}\). In the paper under review the author constructs a very interesting infinite family of subgroups of \(\mathcal N\) which are just infinite, nonlinear pro-\(p\) groups of finite width. A pro-\(p\) group \(G\) is just infinite if all of its proper quotients are finite; and it is of finite width if there is a uniform bound on the order of its lower central quotients. The graded Lie algebras associated to these groups, with respect to their lower central series, are all isomorphic to \(\mathfrak{sl}_2(\mathbb{F}_p)\otimes t\mathbb{F}_p[t]\); therefore all the lower central quotients have order \(p^3\). This construction answers two questions of \textit{Y.~Barnea} [Commun. Algebra 30, No. 3, 1293-1303 (2002; Zbl 1011.20034)]. To prove that the groups under study are nonlinear, a new description of the centralizers of elements of order \(p\) in \(\mathcal N\) is given, and the concept of Hausdorff dimension is exploited.
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Nottingham group
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pro-\(p\) groups of finite width
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lower central series
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centralizers
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