Algebraic and geometric intersection numbers for free groups

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2008.12.039MaRDI QIDQ1019136zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Siddhartha Gadgil, Suhas Pandit

Publication date 28 May 2009

Published in Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0809.3109

zbMATH Keywords

free groupsintersection numbers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05) Topological methods in group theory (57M07)

Abstract: We show that the algebraic intersection number of Scott and Swarup for splittings of free groups coincides with the geometric intersection number for the sphere complex of the connected sum of copies of $S^{2}imes{S}^1$.

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