A non-abelian free pro-\(p\) group is not linear over a local field
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instance of: scholarly article
title: A non-abelian free pro-\(p\) group is not linear over a local field
zbMATH Open document ID: 0923.20018
author: K. Appert
published in: Journal of Algebra
publication date: 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z
review text: Pink's recent characterization of compact subgroups of \(\text{GL}_n(F)\), where \(F\) is a non-archimedian local field, is applied to prove that a free non-abelian pro-\(p\) group can not be linear over \(F\). This establishes a conjecture of Lubotzky and Shalev. Using a theorem of Zelmanov the authors deduce some group theoretic properties of linear pro-\(p\) groups over local fields.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 20E18
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 20G25
zbMATH DE Number: 1275267
zbMATH Keywords: free pro-\(p\) groups
zbMATH Keywords: linear pro-\(p\) groups over local fields
reviewed by: Pavel Zalesskij
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
full work available at URL: jabr.1998.7682
OpenAlex ID: W2020472010
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DOI: 10.1006/JABR.1998.7682
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1275267