Geometricity and polygonality in free groups.

DOI10.1142/S0218196711006157zbMATH Open1228.20034arXiv0910.5019MaRDI QIDQ2996846FDOQ2996846

Authors: Sang-Hyun Kim 

Publication date: 3 May 2011

Published in: International Journal of Algebra and Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Gordon and Wilton recently proved that the double D of a free group F amalgamated along a cyclic subgroup C of F contains a surface group if a generator w of C satisfies a certain 3-manifold theoretic condition, called virtually geometricity. Wilton and the author defined the polygonality of w which also guarantees the existence of a surface group in D. In this paper, virtual geometricity is shown to imply polygonality up to descending to a finite-index subgroup F' and applying an automorphism on F'. That the converse does not hold will follow from an example formerly considered by Manning.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0910.5019

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zbMATH Keywords

Cayley graphsfree groupshyperbolic groupsWhitehead graphshyperbolic surface subgroupssubgroup separability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free nonabelian groups (20E05) Free products of groups, free products with amalgamation, Higman-Neumann-Neumann extensions, and generalizations (20E06) Residual properties and generalizations; residually finite groups (20E26) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Geometric group theory (20F65) Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67) Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Group actions on manifolds and cell complexes in low dimensions (57M60) Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07)

Cites Work

• Topology of finite graphs
• Hall's theorem for limit groups.
• Surface subgroups from homology.
• On Certain Sets of Elements in a Free Group
• Diskbusting elements of the free group

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• Certaines Relations D'Équivalence Sur L'Ensemble Des Bouts D'Un Groupe Libre
• Hyperbolic surface subgroups of one-ended doubles of free groups.

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