Finitely presented normal subgroups of a product of Fuchsian groups

DOI10.1006/JABR.2000.8352MaRDI QIDQ1584602zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors F. E. A. Johnson

Publication date 12 March 2002

Published in Journal of Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1006/jabr.2000.8352

zbMATH Keywords

direct productsfinitely presented normal subgroupsfinitely presented subgroupsFuchsian groupsnormal subdirect productssubgroups of finite index

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07) Extensions, wreath products, and other compositions of groups (20E22) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Fuchsian groups and their generalizations (group-theoretic aspects) (20H10)

Review text

The question of whether or not the Baumslag-Roseblade theorem extends to finitely presented subgroups of a direct product of two Fuchsian groups is answered for normal subgroups. It is shown that if \(\Gamma\) is a finitely presented normal subgroup of a product \(G_1\times G_2\) of Fuchsian groups which projects non-trivially onto each factor, then \(\Gamma\) has finite index in \(G_1\times G_2\). In the proof, the author uses a previous paper of himself [Proc. Edinb. Math. Soc., II. Ser. 33, No. 2, 309-319 (1990; Zbl 0704.20022)] concerning the description of normal subdirect products in the Abelian case and also an unpublished result of N. C. Carr on the rigidity of normal subdirect products of diagonal rank one. The main result of the paper is the following: Theorem A. Let \(\Gamma\) be finitely presented normal subgroup of a product \(G_1\times G_2\) of Fuchsian groups; then either (i) \(\Gamma\) has finite index in \(G_1\times G_2\), or (ii) \(\Gamma\) is contained, with finite index, in one of the factors.

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• An extension of a theorem of Kurosh and applications to Fuchsian groups
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• A note on Fuchsian groups

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