Profinite Groups

• Main Authors: Ribes, Luis (Author), Zalesskii, Pavel (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
• Series: Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete. 3. Folge / A Series of Modern Surveys in Mathematics ; 40
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Group theory.; Topological groups.; Lie groups.; Number theory.; Topology.; Group Theory and Generalizations.; Topological Groups, Lie Groups.; Number Theory.

The aim of this book is to serve both as an introduction to profinite groups and as a reference for specialists in some areas of the theory. The book is reasonably self-contained. Profinite groups are Galois groups. As such they are of interest in algebraic number theory. Much of recent research on...