The real genus of the alternating groups.
We consider actions of automorphism groups of free groups by semisimple isometries on complete CAT(0) spaces. If n ≥ 4 then each of the Nielsen generators of Aut(Fₙ) has a fixed point. If n = 3 then either each of the Nielsen generators has a fixed point, or else they are hyperbolic and each Nielsen-generated ℤ⁴ ⊂ Aut(F₃) leaves invariant an isometrically embedded copy of Euclidean 3-space 𝔼³ ↪ X on which it acts as a discrete group of translations with the rhombic dodecahedron as a Dirichlet...
The profinite topology on any abstract group , is one such that the fundamental system of neighborhoods of the identity is given by all its subgroups of finite index. We say that a group has the Ribes-Zalesskii property of rank , or is RZ with a natural number, if any product of finitely generated subgroups is closed in the profinite topology on . And a group is said to have the Ribes-Zalesskii property or is RZ if it is RZ for any natural number . In this paper we characterize groups...
In this paper the fundamental algebraic propeties of convergent and divergent permutations of ℕ are presented. A permutation p of ℕ is said to be divergent if at least one conditionally convergent series of real terms is rearranged by p to a divergent series . All other permutations of ℕ are called convergent. Some generalizations of the Riemann theorem about the set of limit points of the partial sums of rearrangements of a given conditionally convergent series are also studied.
We give a presentation (in terms of generators and relations) of the ring of multisymmetric functions that holds for any commutative ring , thereby answering a classical question coming from works of F. Junker [J1, J2, J3] in the late nineteen century and then implicitly in H. Weyl book “The classical groups” [W].
Let be a prime number. This paper introduces the Roquette category of finite -groups, which is an additive tensor category containing all finite -groups among its objects. In , every finite -group admits a canonical direct summand , called the edge of . Moreover splits uniquely as a direct sum of edges of Roquette -groups, and the tensor structure of can be described in terms of such edges. The main motivation for considering this category is that the additive functors from to...