The congruence subgroup problem for a family of branch groups

DOI10.1142/S0218196720500046MaRDI QIDQ5221283zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Rachel Skipper

Publication date 25 March 2020

Published in International Journal of Algebra and Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.08218

zbMATH Keywords

branch groupsgroups acting on treescongruence subgroup problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Groups acting on trees (20E08) Limits, profinite groups (20E18)

Abstract: We construct a family of groups which generalize the Hanoi towers group and study the congruence subgroup problem for the groups in this family. We show that unlike the Hanoi towers group, the groups in this generalization are just infinite and have trivial rigid kernel. We also put strict bounds on the branch kernel. Additionally, we show that these groups have subgroups of finite index with non-trivial rigid kernel. The only previously known group where this kernel is non-trivial is the Hanoi towers group and so this adds infinitely many new examples. Finally, we show that the topological closures of these groups have Hausdorff dimension arbitrarily close to 1.

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