Residual nilpotency of Fuchsian groups

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Authors A. Murray Macbeath

Publication date 1984

Published in Illinois Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

cocompact Fuchsian groupsconjugacy classes of maximal finite cyclic subgroupsnilpotent automorphism groups of Riemann surfacesp-local groupsresidually finiteresidually nilpotent

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Residual properties and generalizations; residually finite groups (20E26) Fuchsian groups and their generalizations (group-theoretic aspects) (20H10) Fuchsian groups and automorphic functions (aspects of compact Riemann surfaces and uniformization) (30F35)

Review text

A cocompact Fuchsian group \(\Gamma\) has a signature \((g;m_ 1,m_ 2,...,m_ r)\) which indicates, in particular, that \(\Gamma\) has r conjugacy classes of maximal finite cyclic subgroups and their orders are \(m_ 1,m_ 2,...,m_ r.\) All these groups are residually finite and except for the cases when \(g=0\) and the \(m_ i\) are coprime in pairs, in which case \(\Gamma\) is perfect, are known to be residually finite-and- soluble [\textit{C. H. Sah}, Acta. Math. 123, 13-42 (1969; Zbl 0208.100)]. The author proves that these Fuchsian groups are residually nilpotent if and only if the signature is p-local i.e. the \(m_ i\) are all powers of a single prime (this includes the torsion-free case). More generally, the study of homomorphisms from cocompact Fuchsian groups to nilpotent groups is reduced to the study of homomorphisms from p-local groups to finite p- groups. Using this, homomorphisms (with torsion free kernel) onto nilpotent groups are characterized. These are of particular interest as they give rise to nilpotent automorphism groups of Riemann surfaces.

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