On a theorem of Peter Scott

DOI10.1090/S0002-9939-2014-12031-4MaRDI QIDQ3189592zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Priyam Patel

Publication date 12 September 2014

Published in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1204.5135

zbMATH Keywords

LERFresidual finitenessright-angled Coxeter groupsurface group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Residual properties and generalizations; residually finite groups (20E26) Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05) Covering spaces and low-dimensional topology (57M10) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50)

Abstract: We quantify Peter Scott's Theorem that surface groups are locally extended residually finite (LERF) in terms of geometric data. In the process, we will quantify another result by Scott that any closed geodesic in a surface lifts to an embedded loop in a finite cover.

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