Decompositions of fundamental groups of closed surfaces into free constructions

DOI10.1023/A:1020964811554MaRDI QIDQ1855281zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Oleg Bogopolski

Publication date 4 February 2003

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1020964811554

zbMATH Keywords

amalgamated productsclosed surfacesfundamental groupsgeometric decompositionsgraphs of groupsHNN-extensionssubgroups of finite index

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free products of groups, free products with amalgamation, Higman-Neumann-Neumann extensions, and generalizations (20E06) Groups acting on trees (20E08) Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05)

Review text

In this paper it is proven that for a closed surface \(T\) any decomposition of \(\pi_1(T,x)\) into an amalgamated product (or, more generally, into the fundamental group of a finite graph of groups) with f.g. edge group(s) is almost geometric. This means that there is a subgroup \(H\) of fintie index in \(\pi_1(T,x)\) such that the induced decomposition of \(H\) is geometric in the corresponding covering of \(T\). In addition, the author investigates to what extent the edge groups determine the vertex groups.

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