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Small profinite groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Ludomir Newelski*
Affiliation:
Mathematical Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Ul.Kopernika 18, 51-617 Wroclaw, Poland
*
Mathematical Institute, University of Wroclaw, pl. Grunwaldzki, 2/4, 50-384 Wroclaw, Poland, E-mail: [email protected]

Abstract

We propose a model-theoretic framework for investigating profinite groups. Within this framework we define and investigate small profinite groups. We consider the question if any small profinite group has an open abelian subgroup.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 2001

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