English

Cartesian products as profinite completions

Group Theory 2007-05-23 v1 Rings and Algebras

Abstract

We prove that if a Cartesian product of alternating groups is topologically finitely generated, then it is the profinite completion of a finitely generated residually finite group. The same holds for Cartesian producs of other simple groups under some natural restrictions.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.math/0602446,
  title  = {Cartesian products as profinite completions},
  author = {Martin Kassabov and Nikolay Nikolov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0602446},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

latex 13 pages