Seminar series
Date
Tue, 26 May 2026
15:00
Location
L6
Speaker
Francesco Fournier-Facio
Organisation
Cambridge

A Groethendieck pair consists of a finitely generated residually finite group G, with a finitely generated subgroup N such that the inclusion N -> G induces an isomorphism of profinite completions. I will present a new method to produce Groethendieck pairs with peculiar properties, using iterated group theoretic Dehn filling on hyperbolic virtually special groups. Such pairs witness the profinite non-invariance of quasimorphisms, stable commutator length, and actions on hyperbolic spaces and finite-dimensional CAT(0) cube complexes.

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