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Sylow subgroups of the free product of profinite groups
I am interested in the Sylow subgroups of the profinite completion of a free product of finite groups.
Is the following naive expectation true ? I assume things like this should be well-known, and am ...
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Improvements of the Reidemeister-Schreier index formula for particular classes of groups
I have a couple of questions regarding possible improvements of the Reidemeister-Schreier index formula: let $G$ be a $d$-generated group and let $H$ be a subgroup of $G$, then
$$d(H) \le (d-1) \...
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Thin profinite groups - nonabelian analogues of p-adic integers
Let $p$ be a prime number, $S = C_p$ a cyclic group of order $p$, $G = \mathbb{Z}_p$ the profinite additive group of $p$-adic integers. It is well known that all the closed nontrivial subgroups of $G$ ...