The canonical character of a Demushkin group #
A Demushkin group G has exactly one continuous character χ : G → ℤ_pˣ with Labute's prescription
property (TauCeti.HasPrescriptionProperty): every reduction H¹(G, I(χ)/pⁱ) → H¹(G, I(χ)/p) of
the twisted coefficients is surjective (Labute, Theorem 4). This file proves that theorem and
defines the character, TauCeti.demushkinCharacter, the canonical character or orientation
of G, whose image is the second invariant of the classification of Demushkin groups.
Write G = ⟨x₁, …, x_n ∣ r⟩ with r ∈ Φ(F) in the free pro-p group F. A continuous character
χ of G is determined by its values u_i = χ(x_i), which are principal units 1 + pℤ_p, and by
the relator criterion
(TauCeti.presentedProP.hasPrescriptionProperty_iff_forall_isCrossedHom_eq_zero) it has the
prescription property exactly when every continuous crossed homomorphism F → ℤ_p for the induced
character of F vanishes at r. The existence and uniqueness theorem holds for every
one-relator pro-p group whose relator has nondegenerate degree-one form
(TauCeti.freeProP.degreeOneForm), a condition every Demushkin group satisfies
(TauCeti.IsDemushkin.nondegenerate_degreeOneForm); it needs no normal form of the relator and is
uniform in p.
Main definitions #
TauCeti.demushkinCharacter: the canonical character of a Demushkin group.
Main results #
TauCeti.existsUnique_hasPrescriptionProperty_presentedProP_of_nondegenerate: a one-relator pro-pgroup whose relator has nondegenerate degree-one form has exactly one continuous character with the prescription property.TauCeti.IsDemushkin.existsUnique_hasPrescriptionProperty: Labute's Theorem 4, existence and uniqueness of the canonical character of a Demushkin group.TauCeti.hasPrescriptionProperty_demushkinCharacter,TauCeti.HasPrescriptionProperty.eq_demushkinCharacter,TauCeti.hasPrescriptionProperty_iff_eq_demushkinCharacter: the canonical character has the prescription property, and it is the only character that does.TauCeti.demushkinCharacter_of_equiv,TauCeti.range_demushkinCharacter_of_equiv: the canonical character, and its image, are invariant under topological isomorphism, across universes.TauCeti.range_demushkinCharacter_eq_of_equiv: the image of the canonical character ofGisAas soon asGis isomorphic to a group all of whose characters with the prescription property have imageA; this reads the image table of the normal forms on the canonical character.TauCeti.isClosed_range_demushkinCharacter: the image of the canonical character is a closed subgroup ofℤ_pˣ, contained in the principal units (TauCeti.demushkinCharacter_apply_mem_unitsPrincipal_one).
References #
- J. P. Labute, Classification of Demushkin groups, Canad. J. Math. 19 (1967), 106–132, §2, Proposition 6 and Theorem 4.
- J.-P. Serre, Structure de certains pro-p-groupes, Séminaire Bourbaki 252 (1962/63).
A one-relator pro-p group whose relator has nondegenerate degree-one form has exactly one
continuous character with the prescription property (Labute, Theorem 4, without normal forms).
Let F be the free pro-p group on a finite type X and r ∈ Φ(F) a relator whose class in
gr_1(F) has nondegenerate degree-one form. Then the presented group ⟨X ∣ r⟩ has exactly one
continuous character χ : ⟨X ∣ r⟩ → ℤ_pˣ with the prescription property, that is, exactly one
continuous character for which every continuous crossed homomorphism F → ℤ_p for the induced
character of F vanishes at r (the relator criterion,
TauCeti.presentedProP.hasPrescriptionProperty_iff_forall_isCrossedHom_eq_zero).
Labute's Theorem 4: a Demushkin group has exactly one continuous character with the prescription property.
The canonical character (orientation) of a Demushkin group: the unique continuous
character χ : G → ℤ_pˣ with the prescription property (Labute, Theorem 4). Its image is the
invariant that, together with the rank, classifies Demushkin groups.
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The canonical character has the prescription property.
The canonical character is the only continuous character with the prescription property. This is the uniqueness half of Labute's Theorem 4 and the normalization consumed by the marked classification.
A continuous character of a Demushkin group has the prescription property exactly when it is the canonical character.
The canonical character takes values in the principal units 1 + pℤ_p.
The image of the canonical character is closed: it is the image of a compact group under a continuous map.
Pulling the canonical character back along a topological group isomorphism e : H ≃ₜ* G does
not change its image. The group H may live in any universe and need not be known to be
Demushkin.
The image of the canonical character, read through an isomorphism: if e : G ≃ₜ* H and
every continuous character of H with the prescription property has image A, then the canonical
character of G has image A. This is how the image table of the normal forms, stated for any
character with the prescription property of the presented group, is read on the canonical
character of a Demushkin group isomorphic to that presented group.
The canonical character is invariant under topological isomorphism: along e : G ≃ₜ* H,
the canonical character of H is the canonical character of G pulled back along e⁻¹. The two
groups may live in different universes.
The image of the canonical character is invariant under topological isomorphism.