Nilpotent Completions of Groups, Grothendieck Pairs, and Four Problems of Baumslag

DOI10.1093/IMRN/RNT353zbMATH Open1334.20030arXiv1211.0493OpenAlexW3106484322MaRDI QIDQ5249709FDOQ5249709

Authors: Martin R. Bridson, Alan W. Reid 

Publication date: 11 May 2015

Published in: IMRN. International Mathematics Research Notices (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Two groups are said to have the same nilpotent genus if they have the same nilpotent quotients. We answer four questions of Baumslag concerning nilpotent completions. (i) There exists a pair of finitely generated, residually torsion-free-nilpotent groups of the same nilpotent genus such that one is finitely presented and the other is not. (ii) There exists a pair of finitely presented, residually torsion-free-nilpotent groups of the same nilpotent genus such that one has a solvable conjugacy problem and the other does not. (iii) There exists a pair of finitely generated, residually torsion-free-nilpotent groups of the same nilpotent genus such that one has finitely generated second homology $$ and the other does not. (iv) A non-trivial normal subgroup of infinite index in a finitely generated parafree group cannot be finitely generated. In proving this last result, we establish that the first $L^2$ betti number of a finitely generated parafree group of rank $r$ is $r-1$. It follows that the reduced $C^{\ast }$-algebra of the group is simple if $rge2$, and that a version of the Freiheitssatz holds for parafree groups.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1211.0493

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zbMATH Keywords

Freiheitssatzsubgroups of infinite indexfinitely presented groupsGrothendieck pairsresidually nilpotent groupsparafree groupsnilpotent quotientssoluble conjugacy problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Residual properties and generalizations; residually finite groups (20E26) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Derived series, central series, and generalizations for groups (20F14) Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07) Nilpotent groups (20F18)

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