Finite-presentability conjecture for generalised Wilson groups

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A generalised Wilson group is an infinitely iterated wreath product of finite non-abelian simple permutation groups of the type considered in the paper. A profinite group is finitely presentable if it admits a presentation with finitely many generators and finitely many defining relations in the profinite category. Finite-presentability conjecture. Every generalised Wilson group is not finitely presentable. The paper proves non-finite-presentability for broad families, including infinitely iterated wreath products built from a sequence in which a fixed prime divides the relevant Schur multipliers infinitely often, but does not prove the statement for all generalised Wilson groups.

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Matteo Vannacci, “On hereditarily just infinite profinite groups obtained via iterated wreath products”, arXiv:1506.00139 (2015).

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