Profinite completions and Kazhdan's property (T). (Q426202)
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Profinite completions and Kazhdan's property (T). (English)
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11 June 2012
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Summary: We show that property (T) is not profinite, that is, we construct two finitely generated residually finite groups which have isomorphic profinite completions, while one admits property (T) and the other does not. This settles a question raised by M. Kassabov.
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profinite groups
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profinite properties
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Kazhdan property (T)
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arithmetic groups
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finitely generated residually finite groups
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profinite completions
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