English

Pro-p groups acting on trees with finitely many maximal vertex stabilizers up to conjugation

Group Theory 2023-02-14 v2

Abstract

We prove that a finitely generated pro-pp group GG acting on a pro-pp tree TT splits as a free amalgamated pro-pp product or a pro-pp HNN-extension over an edge stabilizer. If GG acts with finitely many vertex stabilizers up to conjugation we show that it is the fundamental pro-pp group of a finite graph of pro-pp groups (G,Γ)(\cal G, \Gamma) with edge and vertex groups being stabilizers of certain vertices and edges of TT respectively. If edge stabilizers are procyclic, we give a bound on Γ\Gamma in terms of the minimal number of generators of GG. We also give a criterion for a pro-pp group GG to be accessible in terms of the first cohomology H1(G,Fp[[G]])H^1(G, \mathbb{F}_p[[G]]).

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2007.06867,
  title  = {Pro-p groups acting on trees with finitely many maximal vertex stabilizers up to conjugation},
  author = {Zoé Chatzidakis and Pavel Zalesskii},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.06867},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

This version corrects a mistake in the statement of Proposition 8.2 (2) of the printed version