Groups with positive rank gradient and their actions

DOI10.1515/MS-2017-0106MaRDI QIDQ4610090zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mark Shusterman

Publication date 5 April 2018

Published in Mathematica Slovaca (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.00144

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free products of groups, free products with amalgamation, Higman-Neumann-Neumann extensions, and generalizations (20E06) Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07) Limits, profinite groups (20E18) Residual properties and generalizations; residually finite groups (20E26) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Geometric group theory (20F65) Asymptotic properties of groups (20F69)

Abstract: We show that given a finitely generated LERF group $G$ with positive rank gradient, and finitely generated subgroups $A,BleqG$ of infinite index, one can find a finite index subgroup $B_0$ of $B$ such that $[G:langleAcup{B}_{0}angle]=infty$. This generalizes a theorem of Olshanskii on free groups. We conclude that a finite product of finitely generated subgroups of infinite index does not cover $G$. We construct a transitive virtually faithful action of $G$ such that the orbits of finitely generated subgroups of infinite index are finite. Some of the results extend to profinite groups with positive rank gradient.

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• Schreier’s formula for prosupersolvable groups
• Virtual retraction and Howson’s theorem in pro-p groups

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