English

The Schur multiplier, profinite completions and decidability

Group Theory 2014-02-26 v1

Abstract

We fix a finitely presented group QQ and consider short exact sequences 1NGQ11\to N\to G\to Q\to 1 with GG finitely generated. The inclusion NGN\to G induces a morphism of profinite completions N^G^\hat N\to \hat G. We prove that this is an isomorphism for all NN and GG if and only if QQ is super-perfect and has no proper subgroups of finite index. We prove that there is no algorithm that, given a finitely presented, residually finite group GG and a finitely presentable subgroup PGP\subset G, can determine whether or not P^G^\hat P\to\hat G is an isomorphism.

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@article{arxiv.0907.5010,
  title  = {The Schur multiplier, profinite completions and decidability},
  author = {Martin R Bridson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0907.5010},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

6 pages no figures. To appear in the Bulletin London Math Soc

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