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Finite subgroups of the profinite completion of good groups

Group Theory 2024-10-29 v2 Geometric Topology

Abstract

Let GG be a residually finite, good group of finite virtual cohomological dimension. We prove that the natural monomorphism GG^G\hookrightarrow\hat{G} induces a bijective correspondence between conjugacy classes of finite pp-subgroups of GG and those of its profinite completion G^\hat{G}. Moreover, we prove that the centralizers and normalizers in G^\hat{G} of finite pp-subgroups of GG are the closures of the respective centralizers and normalizers in GG. With somewhat more restrictive hypotheses, we prove the same results for finite solvable subgroups of GG. In the last section, we give a few applications of this theorem to hyperelliptic mapping class groups and virtually compact special toral relatively hyperbolic groups (these include fundamental groups of 33-orbifolds and of uniform standard arithmetic hyperbolic orbifolds).

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@article{arxiv.2406.08639,
  title  = {Finite subgroups of the profinite completion of good groups},
  author = {Marco Boggi and Pavel Zalesskii},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.08639},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

20 pages; minor corrections; to appear in Bull. Lond. Math. Soc