The finite images of finitely generated groups

DOI10.1112/PLMS/82.3.597MaRDI QIDQ2766401zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Dan Segal

Publication date 28 January 2002

Published in Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society. Third Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1112/plms/82.3.597

zbMATH Keywords

branch groupsfinite simple groupsfinitely generated groupsjust infinite groupsnumbers of subgroupsperfect groupsprofinite completionssubgroup growthsubgroups of finite index

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07) Limits, profinite groups (20E18) Residual properties and generalizations; residually finite groups (20E26) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05)

Review text

A group \(G\) has polynomial subgroup growth (PSG) if the number of subgroups having index at most \(n\) in \(G\) is bounded above by some power of \(n\), as \(n\to\infty\). This definition gives rise to the `Gap Problem': Is there a non-trivial lower bound on the subgroup growth of non-PSG finitely generated groups?NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEIn this interesting paper the author proves that no such bound exists. He proves that there is a continuous range of types of growth between PSG and subgroup growth of type at least \(n^{\log\log n}\). The proof uses the construction of branch groups due to \textit{R. I. Grigorchuk} [in New horizons in pro-\(p\) groups, Prog. Math. 184, 121-179 (2000; Zbl 0982.20024)].NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEThe author also uses this construction to prove that given a non-empty collection \(S\) of non-Abelian finite simple groups, then there exists a 63-generator just infinite group whose upper composition factors comprise exactly the set \(S\). In the course of the proof he proves that there exists a 61-generator perfect group that has every non-Abelian finite simple group as a homomorphic image.

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