A converse to Schreier's index-rank formula
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Authors: Ralph Strebel 
Publication date: 9 January 2018
Abstract: In "Subgroups of free profinite groups and large subfields of Q" (Israel J. Math. 39 (1981), no. 1-2, pages 25-45; MR 617288) A. Lubotzky and L. van den Dries raise the question whether a finitely generated, residually finite group is necessarily free if the rank function on its subgroups of finite index satisfies Schreier's well-known index rank relation (see Question 2 on p. 34). I answered this question in 1980 but, so far, I have not published my answer. This note fills the omission; it gives an amended and abridged version of my original proof.
Residual properties and generalizations; residually finite groups (20E26) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07)
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