Timeline for Free profinite completions
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| Apr 25, 2014 at 15:33 | comment | added | Benjamin Steinberg | Khalid is right, though, that this is a well known open question. I recently heard Alan Reid give a talk about his joint work with Martin Bridson on this subject ma.utexas.edu/users/areid/BCR_website.pdf. Thm 1.2 gives examples of classes of groups whose profinite completions are not isomorphic to free profinite groups. | |
| Apr 25, 2014 at 12:44 | comment | added | Pablo | I'm aware of this paper. I do not think that this problem receives satisfactory treatment there. | |
| Apr 25, 2014 at 11:49 | comment | added | Khalid Bou-Rabee | I believe this is a more general version of a well known open question. See page 4 of arxiv.org/pdf/1108.5130.pdf | |
| Apr 25, 2014 at 11:05 | history | asked | Pablo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |