Group extensions with infinite conjugacy classes.

DOI10.5802/CML.3zbMATH Open1314.20024arXiv1201.4107OpenAlexW2963572791MaRDI QIDQ2339147FDOQ2339147

Authors: Jean-Philippe Préaux 

Publication date: 31 March 2015

Published in: Confluentes Mathematici (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We characterize the group property of being with infinite conjugacy classes (or icc, i.e. infinite and of which all conjugacy classes except {1} are infinite) for groups which are defined by an extension of groups. We give characterizations for all different kinds of extension: direct product, semi-direct product, wreath products and general extension. We also give many particular results when the groups involved verify some additional hypothesis. The icc property is correlated to the Theory of Von Neumann algebras since a necessary and sufficient condition for the Von Neumann algebra of a group Gamma to be a factor of type II - 1, is that Gamma be icc. Our approach applies in full generality in the study of icc property since any group either decomposes as an extension of groups or is simple, and in the latter case icc property becomes trivially equivalent to being infinite.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1201.4107

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zbMATH Keywords

semi-direct productswreath productsamalgamated productsextensions of groupsHNN extensionssplit extensionsfinite extensionsgroups with infinite conjugacy classes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free products of groups, free products with amalgamation, Higman-Neumann-Neumann extensions, and generalizations (20E06) Extensions, wreath products, and other compositions of groups (20E22) Conjugacy classes for groups (20E45)

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