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Measures induced by sugroups and tuples in free groups

Group Theory 2026-02-16 v1

Abstract

We study probability measure on Hom(H,G)\mathrm{Hom}(H,G), where GG is a finite group and HH a finitely generated subgroup of a finitely generated free group FF, obtained by pushing forward the uniform random homomorphisms Hom(F,G)\mathrm{Hom}(F,G) via restriction map to Hom(H,G)\mathrm{Hom}(H,G). This framework generalizes the word measures arising from single elements of a free group. We formalize the notion of profinite rigidity for subgroups via these induced measures. Our main result shows that a finitely generated subgroup is profinitely rigid if and only if any (equivalently, every) ordered generating tuple is profinitely rigid, thereby extending the notion of rigidity from individual word maps to arbitrary tuples. We also obtain a generalization of a result of \cite{puder2015measure}.

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@article{arxiv.2602.12815,
  title  = {Measures induced by sugroups and tuples in free groups},
  author = {Shrinit Singh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.12815},
  year   = {2026}
}
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