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Commensurability growth of branch groups

Group Theory 2020-01-22 v1

Abstract

Fixing a subgroup Γ\Gamma in a group GG, the commensurability growth function assigns to each nn the cardinality of the set of subgroups Δ\Delta of GG with [Γ:ΓΔ][Δ:ΓΔ]=n[\Gamma: \Gamma \cap \Delta][\Delta : \Gamma \cap \Delta] = n. For pairs ΓA\Gamma \leq A, where AA is the automorphism group of a pp-regular tree and Γ\Gamma is finitely generated, we show that this function can take on finite, countable, or uncountable cardinals. For almost all known branch groups Γ\Gamma (the first Grigorchuk group, the twisted twin Grigorchuk group, Pervova groups, Gupta-Sidki groups, etc.) acting on pp-regular trees, this function is precisely 0\aleph_0 for any n=pkn = p^k.

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@article{arxiv.1808.08660,
  title  = {Commensurability growth of branch groups},
  author = {Khalid Bou-Rabee and Rachel Skipper and Daniel Studenmund},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.08660},
  year   = {2020}
}

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