Magnus subgroups of one-relator surface groups.

DOI10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2010.01.026MaRDI QIDQ965174zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors James Howie, Muhammad Sarwar Saeed

Publication date 21 April 2010

Published in Journal of Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0709.4393

zbMATH Keywords

fundamental groupsMagnus subgroupsone-relator groupssurface groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05) Topological methods in group theory (57M07)

Abstract: A one-relator surface group is the quotient of an orientable surface group by the normal closure of a single relator. A Magnus subgroup is the fundamental group of a suitable incompressible sub-surface. A number of results are proved about the intersections of such subgroups and their conjugates, analogous to results of Bagherzadeh, Brodskii, and Collins in classical one-relator group theory.

Review text

The authors define a one-relator surface group as the quotient of the fundamental group of an orientable surface (possibly noncompact, or with boundary) by the normal closure of a single element. A Magnus subgroup of a one-relator surface group is defined as follows motivated by the definition of Magnus subgroups for one-relator groups. Definition: Let \(S\) be a surface, \(R\) an element of \(\pi_1(S)\) and \(G=\pi_1(S)/\langle\langle R\rangle\rangle\). A subgroup \(M\) of \(G\) is a Magnus subgroup if there is an essential separating simple closed curve \(\alpha\) in \(S\) that separates \(S\) into two components \(S_1\) and \(S_2\), such that: 1. \(R\) is not conjugate in \(\pi_1(S)\) to an element of \(\pi_1(S_1)\) or of \(\pi_1(S_2)\); and 2. \(M\) is the image in \(G\) of the subgroup \(\pi_1(S_1)\) of \(\pi_1(S)\). A pair of such Magnus subgroups \(M_1\) and \(M_2\) are said to be `compatible' if the corresponding separating curves on \(S\) can be chosen to be disjoint. The following are two of the main theorems of the paper under review: Theorem: Let \(G\) be a one-relator surface group, and let \(M\) be a Magnus subgroup of \(G\). Then \(M\) is cyclonormal, that is, for any \(g\in G\setminus M\), \(M\cap gMg^{-1}\) is cyclic. Theorem: Let \(G\) be a one-relator surface group and let \(M_1\) and \(M_2\) be two compatible Magnus subgroups of \(G\). Let \(g\in G\). Then \(M_1\cap_GgM_2g^{-1}\) is cyclic unless \(g\in M_1M_2\).

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