Residual finiteness of surface groups via tessellations

DOI10.1007/BF02574004MaRDI QIDQ1317878zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors V. Pereyra

Publication date 22 March 1994

Published in Discrete \& Computational Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://eudml.org/doc/131298

zbMATH Keywords

closed orientable surfacefundamental grouplocally extended residually finite

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Packing and covering in (2) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C15) Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05)

Review text

\textit{P. Scott} [J. Lond. Math. Soc., II. Ser. 17, 555-565 (1978; Zbl 0412.57006)] has proved that the fundamental group \(G\) of a closed orientable surface is locally extended residually finite (LERF), which means that for any finitely generated subgroup \(S\) of \(G\) and any element \(g\) of \(G-S\) there exists a finite index subgroup \(H\) of \(G\) such that \(H\) contains \(S\) but not \(g\). For the proof, P. Scott used a tesselation of the hyperbolic plane by regular pentagons. Here the author presents an alternative proof using quadrangles instead of pentagons.

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