The Congruence Subgroup Problem for the Free Metabelian group on $n\geq4$ generators
Group Theory
2019-02-05 v5
Abstract
The congruence subgroup problem for a finitely generated group asks whether the map is injective, or more generally, what is its kernel ? Here denotes the profinite completion of . It is well known that for finitely generated free abelian groups for every , but , where is the free profinite group on countably many generators. Considering , the free metabelian group on generators, it was also proven that and . In this paper we prove that for is abelian. So, while the dichotomy in the abelian case is between and , in the metabelian case it is between and .
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@article{arxiv.1701.02459,
title = {The Congruence Subgroup Problem for the Free Metabelian group on $n\geq4$ generators},
author = {David El-Chai Ben-Ezra},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1701.02459},
year = {2019}
}
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30 pages