Profinite completions of free-by-free groups contain everything
Abstract: Given an arbitrary, finitely presented, residually finite group $\Gamma$, one can construct a finitely generated, residually finite, free-by-free group $M_\Gamma = F_\infty\rtimes F_4$ and an embedding $M_\Gamma \hookrightarrow (F_4\ast \Gamma)\times F_4$ that induces an isomorphism of profinite completions. In particular, there is a free-by-free group whose profinite completion contains $\widehat{\Gamma}$ as a retract.
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