on the free profinite products of profinite groups with commuting subgroups

Prosolvable Subgroups of Free Products of Profinite Groups

Random Normal Subgroups of Free Profinite Groups

Frobenius Subgroups of Free Profinite Products

We solve an open problem of Herfort and Ribes: Profinite Frobenius groups of certain type do occur as closed subgroups of free profinite products of two profinite groups. This also solves a question of Pop about prosolvable subgroups of free profinite products.

Maximal abelian subgroups of free profinite groups

THEOREM. Let F be the free profinite group on a set X, where \X\ > 2, and let n be a non-empty set of primes. Then F has a maximal abelian subgroup isomorphic to HpEn Zp. The idea of the proof is the following: we show that A — Ylpe7I1p is a free factor of Pa, i.e. fia ^ A *B for some profinite group B. To conclude from this that A is a maximal abelian subgroup of Fa (the general case then foll...

Profinite Topologies in Free Products of Groups

Let H be an abstract group and let C be a variety of finite groups (i.e., a class of finite groups closed under taking subgroups, quotients and finite direct products); for example the variety of all finite p-groups, for a fixed prime p. Consider the smallest topology on H such that all the homomorphism H −→ C from H to any group C ∈ C (endowed with the discrete topology) is continuous. We refe...

Counting the Closed Subgroups of Profinite Groups

The sets of closed and closed-normal subgroups of a profinite group carry a natural profinite topology. Through a combination of algebraic and topological methods the size of these subgroup spaces is calculated, and the spaces partially classified up to homeomorphism.