Splittings of groups and intersection numbers

DOI10.2140/GT.2000.4.179zbMATH Open0983.20024arXivmath/9906004OpenAlexW3104506944MaRDI QIDQ1583635FDOQ1583635

Authors: Gadde A. Swarup, Peter Scott 

Publication date: 30 November 2000

Published in: Geometry \& Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove algebraic analogues of the facts that a curve on a surface with self-intersection number zero is homotopic to a cover of a simple curve, and that two simple curves on a surface with intersection number zero can be isotoped to be disjoint.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9906004

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zbMATH Keywords

graphs of groupsintersection numbersfundamental groupssplittings of groupsJSJ-decompositionsfree products with amalgamation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free products of groups, free products with amalgamation, Higman-Neumann-Neumann extensions, and generalizations (20E06) Geometric group theory (20F65) Topological methods in group theory (57M07)

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