An intersection functional on the space of subset currents on a free group

Publication date 19 February 2015

Abstract: Kapovich and Nagnibeda introduced the space

m a t h c a l S m C u r r (F_{N})

of subset currents on a free group

F_{N}

of rank

N g e q 2

, which can be thought of as a measure-theoretic completion of the set of all conjugacy classes of finitely generated subgroups of

F_{N}

. We define a product

m a t h c a l N (H, K)

of two finitely generated subgroups

H

and

K

of

F_{N}

by the sum of the reduced rank

o v e r l i n e m r k (H c a p g K g^{- 1})

over all double cosets

H g K (g i n F_{N})

, and extend the product

m a t h c a l N

to a continuous symmetric

m a t h b b R_{g e q 0}

-bilinear functional

m a t h c a l N c o l o n m a t h c a l S m C u r r (F_{N}) i m e s m a t h c a l S m C u r r (F_{N}) o m a t h b b R_{g e q 0}

. We also give an answer to a question presented by Kapovich and Nagnibeda. The definition of

m a t h c a l N

originates in the Strengthened Hanna Neumann Conjecture, which has been proven by Mineyev and can be stated as follows:

m a t h c a l N (H, K) l e q o v e r l i n e m r k (H) o v e r l i n e m r k (K)

holds for any finitely generated subgroups

H

and

K

of

F_{N}

. As a corollary to our theorem, this inequality is generalized to the inequality for subset currents.

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