Intersections and joins of free groups.

DOI10.2140/AGT.2009.9.305MaRDI QIDQ1007211zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Richard Peabody IV Kent

Publication date 20 March 2009

Published in Algebraic \& Geometric Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0802.0033

zbMATH Keywords

ranksfree groupsfinitely generated subgroupsintersectionsHanna Neumann conjecturejoins

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free nonabelian groups (20E05) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07)

Abstract: Let H and K be subgroups of a free group of ranks h and k geq h. We prove the following strong form of Burns' inequality: rank(H cap K) - 1 leq 2(h-1)(k-1) - (h-1)(rank(H vee K) -1). A corollary of this, also obtained by L. Louder and D. B. McReynolds, has been used by M. Culler and P. Shalen to obtain information regarding the volumes of hyperbolic 3-manifolds. We also prove the following particular case of the Hanna Neumann Conjecture, which has also been obtained by Louder. If the join of H and K has rank at least (h + k + 1)/2, then the intersection of H and K has rank no more than (h-1)(k-1) + 1.

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