Variations on a theme of Burns and Medvedev

Burns and Medvedev prove in [BM] that a relatively free pro-p group cannot be p-adic analytic unless it is virtually nilpotent. We present a shorter, more conceptual proof, and apply it to deduce analogous results for other categories of groups.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Segal, D
Format: Conference item
Published: 2007