Homology in Finite Index Subgroups
Homology in Finite Index Subgroups
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2009
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L. Wall
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This thesis looks at the following question: If G is a finitely presented group and G > G1 > G2 > . . . is a descending sequence of finite index subgroups, then how fast does the rank of H1(Gi;Fp) grow compared with the index |G : Gi|? One of our preliminary theorems gives a lower bound on the rank of the first mod-p homology of a normal subgroup H of index a power of p, in terms of the mod-p homology of the containing group G and the structure of the quotient p-group G/H . This bound generalizes a similar result of Lackenby in [Lac09b], and we use it to strengthen a result of that paper from the case p = 2 to all primes. The main result of the thesis concerns the case where G is the fundamental group of a finite-volume hyperbolic 3-manifold, and the subgroups in the descending sequence {Gi} are congruence subgroups in G. We study the structure of the profinite group SL(2, RP), where RP is the P-adic completion of a ring of integers in a number field, identifying subgroups of SL(2, RP) which are uniformly powerful. We show that if G is the fundamental group of a finite-volume hyperbolic 3-manifold then it can be approximated by SL(2, RP) for some choices of R and P. More precisely, there is a correspondence between certain congruence subgroups of G and congruence subgroups of SL(2, RP). We use this to prove our most general theorem, Theorem 5.3.1. A simple corollary of Theorem 5.3.1 is that for any ǫ > 0 the group G has a finite index subgroup G′ with congruence subgroups {Gi} such that the rank of H1(Gi;Fp) grows at least as fast as |G′ : Gi| 5 6 −ǫ.