On surface subgroups of doubles of free groups

DOI10.1112/JLMS/JDQ007MaRDI QIDQ3580042zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Henry Wilton, Cameron McA. Gordon

Publication date 11 August 2010

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0902.3693

zbMATH Keywords

doubles of free groupsone-relator groupssurface subgroupsword-hyperbolic groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free nonabelian groups (20E05) Free products of groups, free products with amalgamation, Higman-Neumann-Neumann extensions, and generalizations (20E06) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Geometric group theory (20F65) Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67) Topological methods in group theory (57M07)

Abstract: We give several sufficient conditions for a double of a free group along a cyclic subgroup to contain a surface subgroup.

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