The Schur multiplier, profinite completions and decidability
Group Theory
2014-02-26 v1
Abstract
We fix a finitely presented group and consider short exact sequences with finitely generated. The inclusion induces a morphism of profinite completions . We prove that this is an isomorphism for all and if and only if 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 and a finitely presentable subgroup , can determine whether or not is an isomorphism.
Cite
@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