Generating the inverse limit of free groups

DOI10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2021.02.017MaRDI QIDQ2664489zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors G. Conner, Curtis Kent, Petar Pavešić, Wolfgang Herfort

Publication date 20 April 2021

Published in Journal of Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jalgebra.2021.02.017

zbMATH Keywords

Hawaiian earring groupnilpotent factor groupsnon-commutatively slenderpath connected fibrations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free nonabelian groups (20E05) Free products of groups, free products with amalgamation, Higman-Neumann-Neumann extensions, and generalizations (20E06) Limits, profinite groups (20E18) Word problems, other decision problems, connections with logic and automata (group-theoretic aspects) (20F10) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Wild embeddings (57M30)

Review text

From the summary: We study the relation between two uncountable groups with remarkable properties: the topological free product of infinite cyclic groups \(G\), and the inverse limit of finitely generated free groups \(\hat{F}\). The former has a canonical embedding as a proper subgroup of the latter and we examine when \(G\), together with certain naturally defined normal subgroups of \(\hat{F}\), generates the entire group \(\hat{F}\). We are interested in particular in normal subgroups \(\mathrm{Ker}_T (\hat{F}) =\bigcap \{ \mathrm{Ker}\varphi\mid \varphi\in \mathrm{hom}(\hat{F},T)\} \), where \(T\) is some finitely-presented \(n\)-slender group. Our main results state that if \(T\) is the infinite cyclic group or the free nilpotent class 2 group on 2 generators, then \(G\) and \(\mathrm{Ker}_T (\hat{F})\) generate \(\hat{F}\). On the other hand, if \(T\) is the free nilpotent class 3 group or a Baumslag-Solitar group, then the product of subgroups \(G \cdot \mathrm{Ker}_T (\hat{F})\) is a proper subgroup of \(\hat{F}\). In the last section, we provide an interesting geometric interpretation of the above results.

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