The topology of local commensurability graphs

zbMATH Open1499.20077arXiv1508.06335MaRDI QIDQ1667972FDOQ1667972

Authors: Khalid Bou-Rabee, Daniel Studenmund 

Publication date: 31 August 2018

Published in: The New York Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We initiate the study of the $p$-local commensurability graph of a group, where $p$ is a prime. This graph has vertices consisting of all finite-index subgroups of a group, where an edge is drawn between $A$ and $B$ if $[A:AcapB]$ and $[B:AcapB]$ are both powers of $p$. We show that any component of the $p$-local commensurability graph of a group with all nilpotent finite quotients is complete. Further, this topological criterion characterizes such groups. In contrast to this result, we show that for any prime $p$ the $p$-local commensurability graph of any large group (e.g. a nonabelian free group or a surface group of genus two or more or, more generally, any virtually special group) has geodesics of arbitrarily long length.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.06335

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zbMATH Keywords

free groupsnilpotent groupscommensurabilityvery large groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Residual properties and generalizations; residually finite groups (20E26) Chains and lattices of subgroups, subnormal subgroups (20E15) Nilpotent groups (20F18) Permutation groups (20B99)

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• Local commensurability graphs of solvable groups
• Commensurability growths of algebraic groups
• On local tameness of certain graphs of groups
• Large scale geometry of commutator subgroups.

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