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Proalgebraic crossed modules of quasirational presentations

Group Theory 2020-03-17 v4 Algebraic Geometry Algebraic Topology

Abstract

We introduce the concept of quasirational relation modules for discrete and pro-pp presentations of discrete and pro-pp groups and show that aspherical presentations and their subpresentations are quasirational. In the pro-pp-case quasirationality of pro-pp-groups with a single defining relation holds. For every quasirational (pro-pp)relation module we construct the so called pp-adic rationalization, which is a pro-fd-module R^Qp=limR/[R,RMn]Qp\overline{R}\widehat{\otimes}\mathbb{Q}_p= \varprojlim R/[R,R\mathcal{M}_n]\otimes\mathbb{Q}_p. We provide the isomorphisms Rw(Qp)=R^Qp\overline{R^{\wedge}_w}(\mathbb{Q}_p)=\overline{R}\widehat{\otimes}\mathbb{Q}_p and Ru(Qp)=O(Gu)\overline{R_u}(\mathbb{Q}_p)=\mathcal{O}(G_u)^*, where RwR^{\wedge}_w and RuR^{\wedge}_u stands for continuous prounipotent completions and corresponding prounipotent presentations correspondingly. We show how Rw\overline{R^{\wedge}_{w}} embeds into a sequence of abelian prounipotent groups. This sequence arises naturally from a certain prounipotent crossed module, the latter bring concrete examples of proalgebraic homotopy types. The old-standing open problem of Serre, slightly corrected by Gildenhuys, in its modern form states that pro-pp-groups with a single defining relation are aspherical. Our results give a positive feedback to the question of Serre.

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@article{arxiv.1507.03155,
  title  = {Proalgebraic crossed modules of quasirational presentations},
  author = {Andrey Mikhovich},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.03155},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

This is a corrected version of the paper which appeared in the Extended Abstracts Spring 2015, Interactions between Representation Theory, Algebraic Topology and Commutative Algebra, Research Perspectives CRM Barcelona, Vol.5, 2016

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