A finitely generated just-infinite profinite branch group which is not positively finitely generated.

DOI10.1007/S00013-013-0597-XMaRDI QIDQ2447685zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yanyan Li

Publication date 28 April 2014

Published in Archiv der Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00013-013-0597-x

zbMATH Keywords

branch groupsiterated wreath productsjust-infinite groupsjust-infinite profinite groupspositively finite generationsrandom elements

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Limits, profinite groups (20E18) Extensions, wreath products, and other compositions of groups (20E22) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05)

Review text

A profinite group \(G\) is positively finitely generated if \(k\) random elements generate \(G\) with positive probability for some \(k.\) Answering a question of Pyber, the reviewer constructed examples of finitely generated just-infinite profinite groups which are not positively finitely generated [\textit{A. Lucchini}, Isr. J. Math. 141, 119-123 (2004; Zbl 1074.20024)]: these examples turn out to be hereditary just-infinite. Every profinite just infinite group is either a branch group or contains an open normal subgroup which is isomorphic to the direct product of a finite number of copies of some hereditarily just-infinite profinite group. A natural question arises to find groups which are just-infinite, not positively finitely generated, and belong to the class of branch groups. The author gives a positive answer constructing a finitely generated just-infinite profinite group which is branch but not positively finitely generated. His construction is based on the concept of an infinitely iterated wreath product.

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