Profinite completions of Burnside-type quotients of surface groups
Geometric Topology
2019-01-25 v2 Group Theory
Abstract
Using quantum representations of mapping class groups we prove that profinite completions of Burnside-type surface group quotients are not virtually prosolvable, in general. Further, we construct infinitely many finite simple characteristic quotients of surface groups.
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@article{arxiv.1702.07866,
title = {Profinite completions of Burnside-type quotients of surface groups},
author = {Louis Funar and Pierre Lochak},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.07866},
year = {2019}
}
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revised version, 17p