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Absolute profinite rigidity, direct products, and finite presentability

Group Theory 2025-04-15 v2

Abstract

We prove that there exist finitely presented, residually finite groups that are profinitely rigid in the class of all finitely presented groups but not in the class of all finitely generated groups. These groups are of the form Γ×Γ\Gamma \times \Gamma where Γ\Gamma is a profinitely rigid 3-manifold group; we describe a family of such groups with the property that if PP is a finitely generated, residually finite group with P^Γ×Γ^\widehat{P}\cong\widehat{\Gamma\times\Gamma} then there is an embedding PΓ×ΓP\hookrightarrow\Gamma\times\Gamma that induces the profinite isomorphism; in each case there are infinitely many non-isomorphic possibilities for PP.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2312.06058,
  title  = {Absolute profinite rigidity, direct products, and finite presentability},
  author = {M. R. Bridson and A. W. Reid and R. Spitler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.06058},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

27 pages. Final version. To appear in Duke Math Journal

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