A wreath product approach to classical subgroup theorems.

DOI10.4171/LEM/56-1-2zbMATH Open1209.20024arXiv0812.0027MaRDI QIDQ993654FDOQ993654

Authors: Luis Ribes, Benjamin Steinberg 

Publication date: 20 September 2010

Published in: L'Enseignement Mathématique. 2e Série (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We provide elementary proofs of the Nielsen-Schreier Theorem and the Kurosh Subgroup Theorem via wreath products. Our proofs are diagrammatic in nature and work simultaneously in the abstract and profinite categories. A new proof that open subgroups of quasifree profinite groups are quasifree is also given.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0812.0027

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zbMATH Keywords

wreath productsNielsen-Schreier theoremsubgroup theoremsKurosh subgroup theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free nonabelian groups (20E05) Free products of groups, free products with amalgamation, Higman-Neumann-Neumann extensions, and generalizations (20E06) Limits, profinite groups (20E18) Extensions, wreath products, and other compositions of groups (20E22) Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07)

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