Profinite groups with few conjugacy classes of elements of infinite order

DOI10.1007/S00013-023-01851-4MaRDI QIDQ6156368zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors John S. Wilson

Publication date 13 June 2023

Published in Archiv der Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.14753

zbMATH Keywords

conjugacy classesprofinite groupstorsion elements

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Limits, profinite groups (20E18) Conjugacy classes for groups (20E45)

Abstract: It is proved that every finitely generated profinite group with fewer than $2^{alep{h}_0}$ conjugacy classes of elements of infinite order is finite

Review text

A classical result by \textit{E. I. Zelmanov} [Isr. J. Math. 77, No. 1--2, 83--95 (1992; Zbl 0786.22008)] states that a periodic profinite group is locally finite. It is well-known that an infinite profinite group is uncountable. Moreover in [Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 147, No. 9, 4083--4089 (2019; Zbl 1425.22004)], \textit{A. Jaikin-Zapirain} and \textit{N. Nikolov} proved that if a profinite group has only countably many conjugacy classes, then it is finite. On the other hand, the author also proved in [\textit{J. S. Wilson}, Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 150, No. 8, 3297--3305 (2022; Zbl 1498.20072)] that a profinite group has countably many conjugacy classes of \(p\)-elements for an odd prime \(p\) if and only if its Sylow \(p\)-subgroups are finite. In this paper, inspired by these results, the author proves the following deep theorem: Theorem A. If \(G\) is a (topologically) finitely generated profinite group with countably many conjugacy glasses of elements of infinite order, then \(G\) is finite.

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