Profinite Properties of Discrete Groups
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چکیده
This paper is based on a series of 4 lectures delivered at Groups St Andrews 2013. The main theme of the lectures was distinguishing finitely generated residually finite groups by their finite quotients. The purpose of this paper is to expand and develop the lectures. The paper is organized as follows. In §2 we collect some questions that motivated the lectures and this article, and in §3 discuss some examples related to these questions. In §4 we recall profinite groups, profinite completions and the formulation of the questions in the language of the profinite completion. In §5, we recall a particular case of the question of when groups have the same profinite completion, namely Grothendieck’s question. In §6 we discuss how the methods of L2-cohomology can be brought to bear on the questions in §2, and in §7, we give a similar discussion using the methods of the cohomology of profinite groups. In §8 we discuss the questions in §2 in the context of groups arising naturally in low-dimensional topology and geometry, and in §9 discuss parafree groups. Finally in §10 we collect a list of open problems that may be of interest.
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