Sofic groups and profinite topology on free groups

Sofic groups and profinite topology on free groups

We give a definition of weakly sofic groups (w-sofic groups). Our definition is rather natural extension of the definition of sofic groups where instead of Hamming metric on symmetric groups we use general bi-invariant metrics on finite groups. The existence of non w-sofic groups is equivalent to some conjecture about profinite topology on free groups.

S ep 2 00 8 Sofic groups and profinite topology on free groups ⋆

We give a definition of weakly sofic groups (w-sofic groups). Our definition is a rather natural extension of the definition of sofic groups where instead of the Hamming metric on symmetric groups we use general bi-invariant metrics on finite groups. The existence of non w-sofic groups is equivalent to a profinite topology property of products of conjugacy classes in free groups.

Profinite Groups Associated to Sofic Shifts Are Free

We show that the maximal subgroup of the free profinite semigroup associated by Almeida to an irreducible sofic shift is a free profinite group, generalizing an earlier result of the second author for the case of the full shift (whose corresponding maximal subgroup is the maximal subgroup of the minimal ideal). A corresponding result is proved for certain relatively free profinite semigroups. W...

Extending Partial Automorphisms and the Profinite Topology on Free Groups

A class of structures C is said to have the extension property for partial automorphisms (EPPA) if, whenever C1 and C2 are structures in C, C1 finite, C1 ⊆ C2, and p1, p2, . . . , pn are partial automorphisms of C1 extending to automorphisms of C2, then there exist a finite structure C3 in C and automorphisms α1, α2, . . . , αn of C3 extending the pi. We will prove that some classes of structur...

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