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A note on LERF groups and generic group actions

Group Theory 2014-09-17 v1

Abstract

Let GG be a finitely generated group, Sub(G)\mathrm{Sub}(G) the (compact, metric) space of all subgroups of GG with the Chaubuty topology and X!X! the (Polish) group of all permutations of a countable set XX. We show that the following properties are equivalent: (i) Every finitely generated subgroup is closed in the profinite topology, (ii) the finite index subgroups are dense in Sub(G)\mathrm{Sub}(G), (iii) A Baire generic homomorphism ϕ:GX!\phi: G \rightarrow X! admits only finite orbits. Property (i) is known as the LERF property. We introduce a new family of groups which we call {\it{A-separable}} groups. These are defined by replacing, in (ii) above, the word "finite index" by the word "co-amenalbe". The class of A-separable groups contains all LERF groups, all amenable groups and more. We investigate some properties of these groups.

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@article{arxiv.1409.4737,
  title  = {A note on LERF groups and generic group actions},
  author = {Yair Glasner and Daniel Kitroser},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.4737},
  year   = {2014}
}

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