Groups of positive weighted deficiency and their applications.

DOI10.1515/CRELLE.2012.013zbMATH Open1285.20031arXiv1007.1489OpenAlexW2964277930MaRDI QIDQ4921706FDOQ4921706

Authors: Andrei Jaikin-Zapirain, Mikhail Ershov 

Publication date: 13 May 2013

Published in: Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik (Crelles Journal) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper we introduce the concept of weighted deficiency for abstract and pro-$p$ groups and study groups of positive weighted deficiency which generalize Golod-Shafarevich groups. In order to study weighted deficiency we introduce weighted versions of the notions of rank for groups and index for subgroups and establish weighted analogues of several classical results in combinatorial group theory, including the Schreier index formula. Two main applications of groups of positive weighted deficiency are given. First we construct infinite finitely generated residually finite $p$-torsion groups in which every finitely generated subgroup is either finite or of finite index -- these groups can be thought of as residually finite analogues of Tarski monsters. Second we develop a new method for constructing just-infinite groups (abstract or pro-$p$) with prescribed properties; in particular, we show that graded group algebras of just-infinite groups can have exponential growth. We also prove that every group of positive weighted deficiency has a hereditarily just-infinite quotient. This disproves a conjecture of Boston on the structure of quotients of certain Galois groups and solves Problem~15.18 from Kourovka notebook.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1007.1489

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zbMATH Keywords

presentationsfinitely generated subgroupsGolod-Shafarevich inequalityjust infinite pro-\(p\) groupspro-\(p\)-completionsweighted deficiencieshereditarily just-infinite groupsPWD-groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Limits, profinite groups (20E18) Residual properties and generalizations; residually finite groups (20E26) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Asymptotic properties of groups (20F69) Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07)

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