Profinite properties of Coxeter groups
Abstract
We prove a number of results about profinite completions of Coxeter groups. For example we prove Coxeter groups are good in the sense of Serre and that various splittings of Coxeter groups arising from actions on trees are detected by the profinite completion. As an application we prove a number of families Coxeter groups are profinitely rigid amongst Coxeter groups. We also prove that Gromov-hyperbolic FC type, large type, and odd Coxeter groups are almost profinitely rigid amongst Coxeter groups. In the appendix, Sam Fisher and Sam Hughes show that the Atiyah Conjecture holds for all Coxeter groups, and that -Betti numbers and their positive characteristic analogues are profinite invariants of Coxeter groups and of virtually compact special groups.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2505.08701,
title = {Profinite properties of Coxeter groups},
author = {Sam Hughes and Philip Möller and Olga Varghese},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.08701},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
50 pages, with an appendix by Sam P Fisher and Sam Hughes