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Profinite groups in which the probabilistic zeta function has no negative coefficients

Group Theory 2020-05-15 v1

Abstract

To a finitely generated profinite group GG, a formal Dirichlet series PG(s)=nNan(G)/nsP_G(s)=\sum_{n \in \mathbb N} {a_n(G)}/{n^s} is associated, where an(G)=G:H=nμ(H,G)a_n(G)=\sum_{|G:H|=n}\mu(H, G) and μ(H,G)\mu(H,G) denotes the M\"obius function of the lattice of open subgroups of G.G. Its formal inverse PG1(s)P_G^{-1}(s) is the probabilistic zeta function of GG. When GG is prosoluble, every coefficient of (PG(s))1(P_G(s))^{-1} is nonnegative. In this paper we discuss the general case and we produce % existence of a non-prosoluble example and We construct a non-prosoluble finitely generated group GG with the same property.

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@article{arxiv.2005.06918,
  title  = {Profinite groups in which the probabilistic zeta function has no negative coefficients},
  author = {Eloisa Detomi and Andrea Lucchini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.06918},
  year   = {2020}
}
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