Three amalgams with remarkable normal subgroup structures.

DOI10.1016/J.JPAA.2006.10.008MaRDI QIDQ886239zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Diego Rattaggi

Publication date 26 June 2007

Published in Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0506306

zbMATH Keywords

amalgamated productsautomorphism groupscocompact latticesnormal subgroups of infinite indexpresentationssimple groupssubgroups of finite indextorsion-free groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free products of groups, free products with amalgamation, Higman-Neumann-Neumann extensions, and generalizations (20E06) Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07) Simple groups (20E32) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05)

Abstract: We construct three groups $Lambd{a}_1$, $Lambd{a}_2$, $Lambd{a}_3$, which can all be decomposed as amalgamated products $F_{9}as{t}_{F_{81}}{F}_9$ and have very few normal subgroups of finite or infinite index. Concretely, $Lambd{a}_1$ is a simple group, $Lambd{a}_2$ is not simple but has no non-trivial normal subgroup of infinite index, and $Lambd{a}_3$ is not simple but has no proper subgroup of finite index.

Review text

\textit{M. Burger} and \textit{S. Mozes} proved [in Publ. Math., Inst. Hautes Étud. Sci. 92, 151-194 (2000; Zbl 1007.22013)] that certain cocompact lattices in the product of automorphism groups of locally finite trees \(\Aut(T_1)\times\Aut(T_2)\) cannot have non-trivial normal subgroups of infinite index. Applying this result to a cocompact lattice containing as a subgroup a non-residually finite group, given by \textit{D. T. Wise} [in Non-positively curved squared complexes, aperiodic tilings, and non-residually finite groups, Ph.D. thesis, Princeton Univ. (1996)], the author constructs an example of a finitely presented torsion-free simple group \(\Lambda_1\), of the form \(F_9*_{F_{81}}F_9\), where \(F_k\) is the free group of rank \(k\). Two other non-simple groups \(\Lambda_2\), \(\Lambda_3\) are constructed; both having also the amalgam decompositions \(F_9*_{F_{81}}F_9\). The group \(\Lambda_2\) has no non-trivial normal subgroup of infinite index and \(\Lambda_3\) has no non-trivial finite quotients.

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