English

All groups are surjunctive

Dynamical Systems 2019-12-06 v2 Group Theory

Abstract

We prove that for any finitely generated group GG and any k1k\geq1, the space of kk-colorings of GG does not admit a strict self-embedding. This settles the Gottschalk surjunctivity conjecture and, consequently, Kaplansky's direct finiteness conjecture.

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@article{arxiv.1912.00541,
  title  = {All groups are surjunctive},
  author = {Jan Cannizzo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.00541},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

As several people have pointed out to me, the last sentence of Lemma 5.3 is not justified. This likely counts as a fatal flaw that invalidates the main theorem (Theorem 5.4). I would like to thank those who took the time to read the preprint and send me their feedback. I hereby retract the claimed result

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