A remark on the subgroups of finitely generated groups with one defining relation

MaRDI QIDQ1076151zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Gilbert Baumslag, Charles F. III Miller

Publication date 1986

Published in Illinois Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

continuously many non- isomorphic subgroupsfinitely generated groupsfree productfreely indecomposable subgroupsone-relator group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free products of groups, free products with amalgamation, Higman-Neumann-Neumann extensions, and generalizations (20E06) Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05)

Review text

It is well known that a finitely generated free (or free abelian) group can have at most countably many non-isomorphic subgroups. In this incisive note the authors remark that a (f.g.) one-relator group can have continuously many non-isomorphic subgroups. An example is \(<a,b,c: ab=ba^ 2>\), which is typical of the pattern of the main lemma: if \(G\) is a group possessing a countable infinity of non-isomorphic, freely indecomposable subgroups, then the free product of \(G\) with an infinite cyclic group contains continuously many non-isomorphic subgroups.

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• Locally free subgroups of one-relator groups
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