Groups where free subgroups are abundant

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2011-03-06

arxiv.org/abs/1103.1099v1

J. Algebra 344 (2011) 161-171

Mathematics

Group Theory

13 pages

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.jalgebra.2011.07.013

Given an infinite topological group G and a cardinal k>0, we say that G is almost k-free if the set of k-tuples in G^k which freely generate free subgroups of G is dense in G^k. In this note we examine groups having this property and construct examples. For instance, we show that if G is a non-discrete Hausdorff topological group that contains a dense free subgroup of rank k>0, then G is almost k-free. A consequence of this is that for any infinite set X, the group of all permutations of X is almost 2^|X|-free. We also show that an infinite topological group is almost aleph_0-free if and only if it is almost n-free for each positive integer n. This generalizes the work of Dixon and Gartside-Knight.

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