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On soficity for certain fundamental groups of graphs of groups

Group Theory 2024-08-22 v1 Operator Algebras

Abstract

In this note we study a family of graphs of groups over arbitrary base graphs where all vertex groups are isomorphic to a fixed countable sofic group GG, and all edge groups H<GH<G are such that the embeddings of HH into GG are identical everywhere. We prove soficity for this family of groups under a flexible technical hypothesis for HH called σ\sigma-co-sofic. This proves soficity for group doubles HG*_H G, where H<GH<G is an arbitrary separable subgroup and GG is countable and sofic. This includes arbitrary finite index group doubles of sofic groups among various other examples.

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@article{arxiv.2408.11724,
  title  = {On soficity for certain fundamental groups of graphs of groups},
  author = {David Gao and Srivatsav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli and Mahan Mj},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.11724},
  year   = {2024}
}