Elementary Equivalence and Profinite Completions: A Characterization of Finitely Generated Abelian-by-Finite Groups

Elementary Equivalence and Profinite Completions: a Characterization of Finitely Generated Abelian-by-finite Groups

In this paper, we show that any finitely generated abelian-byfinite group is an elementary submodel of its profinite completion. It follows that two finitely generated abelian-by-finite groups are elementarily equivalent if and only if they have the same finite images. We give an example of two finitely generated abelian-by-finite groups G, H which satisfy these properties while G x Z and H x Z...

ELEMENTARY EQUIVALENCE OF PROFINITE GROUPS by

There are many examples of non-isomorphic pairs of finitely generated abstract groups that are elementarily equivalent. We show that the situation in the category of profinite groups is different: If two finitely generated profinite groups are elementarily equivalent (as abstract groups), then they are isomorphic. The proof applies a result of Nikolov and Segal which in turn relies on the class...

Elementary Equivalence of Profinite Groups

There are many examples of non-isomorphic pairs of finitely generated abstract groups that are elementarily equivalent. We show that the situation in the category of profinite groups is different: If two finitely generated profinite groups are elementarily equivalent (as abstract groups), then they are isomorphic. The proof applies a result of Nikolov and Segal which in turn relies on the class...

Finitely Generated Abelian Groups

On finitely generated profinite groups, II: products in quasisimple groups

We prove two results. (1) There is an absolute constant D such that for any finite quasisimple group S, given 2D arbitrary automorphisms of S, every element of S is equal to a product of D ‘twisted commutators’ defined by the given automorphisms. (2) Given a natural number q, there exist C = C(q) and M = M(q) such that: if S is a finite quasisimple group with |S/Z(S)| > C, βj (j = 1, . . . ,M) ...