The profinite completion of certain residually-finite p-groups

DOI10.1007/BF01312549MaRDI QIDQ1057984zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors John R. McMullen

Publication date 1985

Published in Monatshefte für Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://eudml.org/doc/178230

zbMATH Keywords

Burnside problemcompact torsion groupKourovka Notebookprofinite completionsresidually finite p-groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Limits, profinite groups (20E18) Residual properties and generalizations; residually finite groups (20E26) Periodic groups; locally finite groups (20F50)

Review text

It is proved that the profinite completions of the residually finite p- groups constructed by \textit{N. Gupta} and \textit{S. Sidki} [Math. Z. 182, 385-388 (1983; Zbl 0513.20024)] are not torsion groups.

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Cites work

• On the Burnside problem for periodic groups

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• Subspace topologies in central extensions
• Finite subgroups of the profinite completion of good groups
• Torsion in pro-finite completions of torsion-free groups
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