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Martin Bridson (University of Oxford)
Monday 07 July 2025, 10:15-11:15
Free-by-cyclic groups, profinite rigidity and deficiency
- đ¤ Speaker: Martin Bridson (University of Oxford)
- đ Date & Time: Monday 07 July 2025, 10:15 - 11:15
- đ Venue: Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute
Abstract
It is unknown whether free-by-cyclic groups can always be distinguished from one another by their finite quotients, i.e. whether they are always profinitely rigid within the class of free-by-cyclic groups. After surveying the context of this question, I will describe joint work with Pawel Piwek in which we show that all free-by-cyclic groups with centre are profinitely rigid in this sense. I shall also explain why groups of this form resolve the old question of whether one can simultaneously minimise the rank (number of generators) and deficiency of a finitely presented group. A key idea in the proofs is that instead of approaching these groups as mapping tori, one should view them as the fundamental groups of a certain type of non-positively 2-complex.
Series This talk is part of the Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series series.
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