Seminar series
Date
Tue, 11 Mar 2025
15:00
Location
L6
Speaker
Paweł Piwek

Profinite rigidity explores the extent to which non-isomorphic groups can be distinguished by their finite quotients. Many interesting examples of this phenomenon arise in the context of group extensions—short exact sequences of groups with a fixed kernel and quotient. This talk will outline two main mechanisms that govern profinite rigidity in this setting and provide concrete examples of families of extensions that cannot be distinguished by their finite quotients.

The talk is based on my DPhil thesis.

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