Arithmetic groups with isomorphic finite quotients

Two finitely generated groups have the same set of finite quotients if and only if their profinite completions are isomorphic. Consider the map which sends (the isomorphism class of) an S-arithmetic group to (the isomorphism class of) its profinite completion. We show that for a wide class of S-arithmetic groups, this map is finite to one, while the fibers are of unbounded size.     

T-groups,polycyclic groups,and finite quotients

A group is called a T-group if all of its subnormal subgroups are normal. In this note we consider the following question: Assume that G is a polycyclic group. What can be said about G if all finite epimorphic images H of G satisfy one of the following conditions: (i) H is a T-group,(ii) \({H/\Phi (H)}\) is a T-group,(iii) H/Z _*(H) is a T-group. We will see that the prime 2 will play a particular role in (ii) and (iii), see Theorems C and D.     

Structure of augmentation quotients of finite homocyclic abelian groups

Let G be a finite abelian group and its Sylow p-subgroup a direct product of copies of a cyclic group of order p~r,i.e.,a finite homocyclic abelian group.LetΔ~n (G) denote the n-th power of the augmentation idealΔ(G) of the integral group ring ZG.The paper gives an explicit structure of the consecutive quotient group Q_n(G)=Δ~n(G)/Δ~(n 1)(G) for any natural number n and as a consequence settles a problem of Karpilovsky for this particular class of finite abelian groups.     

Generators and commutators in finite groups; abstract quotients of compact groups

The first part of the paper establishes results about products of commutators in a d-generator finite group G, for example: if H?G=??g ₁,??,g _r ?? then every element of the subgroup [H,G] is a product of f(r) factors of the form $[h_{1},g_{1}][h_{1}^{\prime},g_{1}^{-1}]\ldots\lbrack h_{r},g_{r}][h_{r}^{\prime },g_{r}^{-1}]$ with $h_{1},h_{1}^{\prime},\ldots,\allowbreak h_{r},h_{r}^{\prime }\in H$ . Under certain conditions on H, a similar conclusion holds with the significantly weaker hypothesis that G=H??g ₁,??,g _r ??, where f(r) is replaced by f ₁(d,r). The results are applied in the second part of the paper to the study of normal subgroups in finitely generated profinite groups, and in more general compact groups. Results include the characterization of (topologically) finitely generated compact groups which have a countably infinite image, and of those which have a virtually dense normal subgroup of infinite index. As a corollary it is deduced that a compact group cannot have a finitely generated infinite abstract quotient.     

On the L p -distortion of finite quotients of amenable groups

We study the L ^p -distortion of finite quotients of amenable groups. In particular, for every ${2\leq p < \infty}$ , we prove that the ? ^p -distortions of the groups ${C_2\wr C_n}$ and ${C_{2^n}\rtimes C_n}$ are in ${\Theta((\log n)^{1/p}),}$ and that the ? ^p -distortion of ${C_n^2 \rtimes_A \mathbf{Z}}$ , where A is the matrix ${{\left({\small\begin{array}{cc}2 & 1 \\ 1 & 1 \end{array}} \right)}}$ is in ${\Theta((\log \log n)^{1/p}).}$      

Central quotients of biautomatic groups

The quotient of a biautomatic group by a subgroup of the center is shown to be biautomatic. The main tool used is the Neumann-Shapiro triangulation of S ^n-1, associated to a biautomatic structure on . Among other applications, a question of Gersten and Short is settled by showing that direct factors of biautomatic groups are biautomatic. Received: October 4, 1994     

Euclidean quotients of finite metric spaces

This paper is devoted to the study of quotients of finite metric spaces. The basic type of question we ask is: Given a finite metric space M and α?1, what is the largest quotient of (a subset of) M which well embeds into Hilbert space. We obtain asymptotically tight bounds for these questions, and prove that they exhibit phase transitions. We also study the analogous problem for embeddings into ?_p, and the particular case of the hypercube.     

Finite quotients of groups of I-type

To every group of I-type, we associate a finite quotient group that plays the role that Coxeter groups play for Artin–Tits groups. Since groups of I-type are examples of Garside groups, this answers a question of D. Bessis in the particular case of groups of I-type. Groups of I-type are related to finite set-theoretical solutions of the Yang–Baxter equation. So, our result provides a new tool to attack the problem of the classification of finite set-theoretical solutions of the Yang–Baxter equation.     

Finitep-periodic quotients of general linear groups

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典型群的增广商群

设G 为有限域K 上的一般线性群(特殊线性群、酉群、辛群及正交群), 记整群环ZG 的n 次增广理想为△ⁿ(G). 本文着重研究有限域上的典型群的增广商群Q_n(G) = △ⁿ(G)/△ⁿ⁺¹(G), 并刻画了这些连续商群的结构.     

Rank one quotients of vector groups

ABSTRACT

In this paper we study the possible torsion in even-dimensional higher class groups Cl _2n (Λ)(n ≥ 1) of an order Λ in a semisimple algebra A over a number field F with a ring of integers 𝒪 _F . We show that for certain orders, called generalized Eichler orders, bip-torsion in Cl _2n (Λ) can only occur for primes p dividing prime ideals ? of 𝒪 _F , at which Λ is not maximal. In particular, the results apply to Eichler orders in quaternion algebras and to hereditary orders.     

Large groups and their periodic quotients

We first give a short group theoretic proof of the following result of Lackenby. If is a large group, is a finite index subgroup of admitting an epimorphism onto a non-cyclic free group, and are elements of , then the quotient of by the normal subgroup generated by is large for all but finitely many . In the second part of this note we use similar methods to show that for every infinite sequence of primes , there exists an infinite finitely generated periodic group with descending normal series , such that and is either trivial or abelian of exponent .

     

Volumes of S-arithmetic quotients of semi-simple groups

With an appendix by Moshe Jarden and Gopal Prasad     

Multicoherence of finite quotients and one-point compactifications

Let X be a connected, locally connected, regular T₁-space. The purpose of this paper is to prove that the multicoherence degree of the space obtained from X by an identification of two different points is the multicoherence degree of X plus one. This will allow us to obtain some ways to calculate the multicoherence degree of the one-point compactification of X when X is locally compact.     

Boundary and lens rigidity of finite quotients

We consider compact Riemannian manifolds with boundary and metric on which a finite group acts freely. We determine the extent to which certain rigidity properties of descend to the quotient . In particular, we show by example that if is boundary rigid, then need not be. On the other hand, lens rigidity of does pass to the quotient.

     

Simple quotients of hyperbolic 3-manifold groups

We show that hyperbolic -manifolds have residually simple fundamental group.

     

Commutative quotients of finite W-algebras

In this paper we reduce the problem of 1-dimensional representations for the finite W-algebras and Humphreys' conjecture on small representations of reduced enveloping algebras to the case of rigid nilpotent elements in exceptional Lie algebras. We use Katsylo's results on sections of sheets to determine the Krull dimension of the largest commutative quotient of the finite W-algebra U(g,e).