Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
4585946 Journal of Algebra 2012 19 Pages PDF
Abstract

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.

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Physical Sciences and Engineering Mathematics Algebra and Number Theory