The profinite completion of a group localised at a subgroup

Abstract: Let

G

be a group and let

K

be a commensurated subgroup of

G

. Then there is a totally disconnected, locally compact (t.d.l.c.) group

h a t G_{K}

that contains the profinite completion of

K

as an open compact subgroup and also contains

G

(modulo the finite residual of

K

) as a dense subgroup. Moreover, given an arbitrary group

G

, then every t.d.l.c. group containing an image of

G

as a dense subgroup can be realised as a quotient of

h a t G_{K}

for some commensurated subgroup

K

.

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