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Ordinals arising as residual finiteness depths

Group Theory 2025-06-03 v2

Abstract

For every natural number nn, there exist finitely presented groups with residual finiteness depths ωn\omega\cdot n and ωn+1\omega\cdot n + 1. The ordinals that arise as the residual finiteness depth of a finitely generated group (equivalently, a countable group) are 0,10,\, 1, the countable limit ordinals, and the successors of these limit ordinals.

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@article{arxiv.2411.07757,
  title  = {Ordinals arising as residual finiteness depths},
  author = {Martin R. Bridson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.07757},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

12 pages, no figures. Final accepted version. To appear in Revista Matem\'atica Iberoamericana