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Structures in the Burnside ring of profinite groups: Ideals, idempotents and F-stable subrings of Burnside rings of profinite groups

Research output: ThesisDoctoral Thesis

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Publication date2024
Number of pages159
QualificationPhD
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Thesis sponsors
  • UKRI EPSRC
Award date19/07/2024
Publisher
  • Lancaster University
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

The purpose of this thesis is to take established results and structures
for the Burnside ring of finite groups and to create an analogue in the case
where we take the Burnside ring of profinite groups. Since every finite group
is a profinite group, we create these structures in mind of ensuring that they
coincide on the Burnside ring finite profinite groups. The main difference
being that in the Burnside ring of profinite groups, we consider almost finite
G-spaces, and so we can have infinite series within the Burnside ring representing infinite G-spaces. We begin with taking a pro-fusion system over a
pro-p group S and considering the F-stable S-spaces as a subring of Bb(S).
We show Bb(F) ∼= lim←−i(B(Fi)) ∼= Bb(lim←−iFi ) and use this to construct a basis for the subring. For prime ideals, we show that there exists an equivalent to the prime ideals in the finite case and that we have prime ideals arising in
the infinite case that differ in construction from those in the finite. Finally,
we derive expressions for idempotents, showing that they are either finite,
and therefore an inflation of an idempotent in B(G/N), or they are infinite.