P-nilpotent completion is not idempotent

DOI10.5565/PUBLMAT_41297_12MaRDI QIDQ1385192zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Geok-Choo Tan

Publication date 20 October 1998

Published in Publicacions Matemàtiques (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://eudml.org/doc/41311

zbMATH Keywords

\(P\)-nilpotent completionsfirst homology groupsinfinitely generated free groupswedges of circles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free nonabelian groups (20E05) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Nilpotent groups (20F18) Homological methods in group theory (20J05)

Review text

Let \(P\) be an arbitrary set of primes. It is proved that the \(P\)-nilpotent completion of an infinitely generated free group \(F\) does not induce an isomorphism on the first homology group with \(\mathbb{Z}_p\) coefficients. As a consequence, the \(P\)-nilpotent completion is not idempotent and any infinite wedge of circles is \(R\)-bad, where \(R\) is any subring of the rationals.

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