On endomorphisms of free groups that preserve primitivity

DOI10.1007/S000130050309MaRDI QIDQ1291132zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors S. V. Ivanov

Publication date 1 December 1999

Published in Archiv der Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s000130050309

zbMATH Keywords

endomorphisms of free groups of finite rankfree basesprimitive elementsWhitehead automorphisms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free nonabelian groups (20E05) Free products of groups, free products with amalgamation, Higman-Neumann-Neumann extensions, and generalizations (20E06) Automorphisms of infinite groups (20E36) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Geometric group theory (20F65)

Review text

An element of a free group \(F_n\) of rank \(n\) is called primitive if it can be included in a free basis of \(F_n\). This paper deals with endomorphisms of free groups of finite rank which preserve primitivity. It is proved that in many cases these endomorphisms are automorphisms. The main results include the theorem that if \(\varphi\) is an endomorphism of the free group \(F_2\), of rank 2, which preserves primitivity, i.e. maps a primitive element onto a primitive element, then \(\varphi\) is an automorphism. If the image \(\varphi(F_n)\) of an endomorphism \(\varphi\) which preserves primitivity contains a primitive pair (i.e. two independent elements which can be included in a basis of \(F_n\)), then the above theorem holds for arbitrary finite ranks \(n\geq 2\). The main theorems are stated and proved in a more general situation. The proofs are carried out combinatorially using cancellation arguments and the Whitehead automorphisms.

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