An estimate for the rank of the intersection of subgroups in free amalgamated products of two groups with normal finite amalgamated subgroup.

DOI10.1070/SM2013V204N02ABEH004298MaRDI QIDQ2842989zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors A. O. Zakharov

Publication date 9 August 2013

Published in Sbornik: Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1105.2471

zbMATH Keywords

amalgamated free productsHanna Neumann inequalityintersections of finitely generated subgroupsreduced ranks

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free products of groups, free products with amalgamation, Higman-Neumann-Neumann extensions, and generalizations (20E06) Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Cancellation theory of groups; application of van Kampen diagrams (20F06)

Abstract: We partly generalize the estimate for the rank of intersection of subgroups in free products of groups, proved earlier by S.V.Ivanov and W.Dicks, to the case of free amalgamated products of groups with normal finite amalgamated subgroup. We also prove that the obtained estimate is sharp and cannot be further improved when the amalgamated product contains an involution.

Review text

The Hanna Neumann inequality \(\overline r(H_1\cap H_2)\leq 2\overline r(H_1)\overline r(H_2)\) bounds the reduced rank of the intersection of two finitely generated subgroups \(H_1,H_2\) of a free group \(G\). (The reduced rank \(\overline r(H)=\max(0,r(H)-1)\) where \(r(H)\) is the rank of \(H\).) \textit{W. Dicks} and \textit{S. V. Ivanov} [Math. Proc. Camb. Philos. Soc. 144, No. 3, 511-534 (2008; Zbl 1154.20025)] generalized it to the case when \(G\) is a free product of groups.NEWLINENEWLINE This article generalizes the latter result to the case when \(G=G_1*_TG_2\) is an amalgamated free product with finite, normal, amalgamated subgroup \(T\) and \(H_1,H_2\) are factor-free subgroups (that is, they intersect trivially with the conjugates to the factors \(G_1,G_2\)). Two upper bounds are given. The weaker bound of \(6|T|\overline r(H_1)\overline r(H_2)\) is easier to state, but the stronger bound is sharp.NEWLINENEWLINE The bounds are obtained quickly with an argument that makes use of Ivanov and Dicks' bounds for free products (those bounds correspond directly to the case \(T=1\)). The remainder of the paper proves that the stronger bound is sharp, using a graph-theoretic approach due to Ivanov.

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