The pro-p group of upper unitriangular matrices

DOI10.1016/J.JPAA.2017.02.009MaRDI QIDQ2013544zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 8 August 2017

Published in Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.03024

Limits, profinite groups (20E18) Other matrix groups over rings (20H25)

Abstract: We study the pro-

p

group

G

whose finite quotients give the prototypical Sylow

p

-subgroup of the general linear groups over a finite field of prime characteristic

p

. In this article, we extend the known results on the subgroup structure of

G

. In particular, we give an explicit embedding of the Nottingham group as a subgroup and show that it is selfnormalising. Holubowski (cite{holub1,holub0,holub2}) studies a free product

C_{p} * C_{p}

as a (discrete) subgroup of

G

and we prove that its closure is selfnormalising of infinite index in the subgroup of

2

-periodic elements of

G

. We also discuss change of rings: field extensions and a variant for the

p

-adic integers, this latter linking

G

with some well known

p

-adic analytic groups. Finally, we calculate the Hausdorff dimensions of some closed subgroups of

G

and show that the Hausdorff spectrum of

G

is the whole interval

[0, 1]

which is obtained by considering partition subgroups only.

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