Closed procyclic subgroups and prime parts #
The closed subgroup generated by an element of a profinite group is precisely its set of
profinite powers. Thus it is a quotient of the profinite integers and is abelian. The idempotent
of a prime factor of the profinite integers extracts the corresponding prime part of an element:
its closed procyclic subgroup is pro-p, and extraction fixes elements whose closed procyclic
subgroup is already pro-p. The finite sums of all prime idempotents tend to 1, so the prime
parts recover the original element as a limit of finite products.
The power operation is TauCeti.zpowHat, defined using TauCeti.zHat.lift; the prime
idempotents and their product decomposition are TauCeti.zHat.idem and
TauCeti.zHat.ringEquivPiPadicInt.
References #
- L. Ribes and P. Zalesskii, Profinite Groups, Sections 4.1 and 4.3.
The canonical surjection from the profinite integers onto the closed procyclic subgroup.
Instances For
The canonical surjection is the existing lift, with its codomain restricted.
Every element of the closed procyclic subgroup is reached by the canonical lift.
The closed procyclic subgroup consists exactly of the profinite powers of its generator.
Membership in the closed procyclic subgroup is existence of a profinite exponent.
A profinite power generates a subgroup of the original closed procyclic subgroup.
Extracting the p-part fixes an element of a pro-p group.
Extracting the p-part fixes any element whose closed procyclic subgroup is pro-p,
even when the ambient group is not pro-p.
Only the p-component of a profinite exponent matters when the element's closed
procyclic subgroup is pro-p.
In a pro-p group only the p-component of a profinite exponent matters.
The closed subgroup generated by the p-part of an element is pro-p.
An element is its own p-part exactly when its closed procyclic subgroup is pro-p.
Finite collections of prime parts recover the original element in the limit.