On the profinite topology of the automorphism group of a residually torsion free nilpotent group

DOI10.1216/RMJM/1181071796MaRDI QIDQ1293414zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors E. Raptis, Dimitrios Varsos

Publication date 12 April 2000

Published in Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://math.la.asu.edu/~rmmc/rmj/Vol28-2/cont282/cont282.html

zbMATH Keywords

automorphism groupscosetsfinitely generated residually torsion-free nilpotent groupspolycyclic-by-finite subgroupsprofinite topologysubgroups of finite indexsurface groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07) Residual properties and generalizations; residually finite groups (20E26) Nilpotent groups (20F18) Automorphism groups of groups (20F28)

Review text

The profinite topology on a group \(G\) is the topology in which a base of the open sets is the set of all cosets of normal subgroups of finite index in \(G\). The authors prove that if \(G\) is a finitely generated residually torsion-free nilpotent group, then every polycyclic-by-finite subgroup of \(\Aut G\), the automorphism group or \(G\), is closed in the profinite topology on \(\Aut G\). This result implies, in particular, that if \(G\) is either free of finite rank or a surface group, then every polycyclic-by-finite subgroup of \(\Aut G\) is closed in the profinite topology on \(\Aut G\).

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