Profinite rigidity for free-by-cyclic groups with centre
Abstract
A free-by-cyclic group has non-trivial centre if and only if has finite order in . We establish a profinite ridigity result for such groups: if is a free-by-cyclic group with non-trivial centre and is a finitely generated free-by-cyclic group with the same finite quotients as , then is isomorphic to . One-relator groups with centre are similarly rigid. We prove that finitely generated free-by-(finite cyclic) groups are profinitely rigid in the same sense; the proof revolves around a finite poset that carries information about the centralisers of finite subgroups of -- it is a complete invariant for these groups. These results provide contrasts with the lack of profinite rigidity among surface-by-cyclic groups and (free abelian)-by-cyclic groups, as well as general virtually-free groups.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.2409.20513,
title = {Profinite rigidity for free-by-cyclic groups with centre},
author = {Martin R. Bridson and Paweł Piwek},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.20513},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
29 pages, 6 figures. Comments welcome!