The surface group conjecture: cyclically pinched and conjugacy pinched one-relator groups.

DOI10.1007/S00025-013-0307-9MaRDI QIDQ370820zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Laura Ciobanu, B. Fine, Gerhard Rosenberger

Publication date 19 September 2013

Published in Results in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1208.3992

zbMATH Keywords

conjugacy pinched one-relator groupscyclically pinched one-relator groupsfree subgroups of infinite indexfully residually free groupssurface group conjecturesurface groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free nonabelian groups (20E05) Free products of groups, free products with amalgamation, Higman-Neumann-Neumann extensions, and generalizations (20E06) Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07) Residual properties and generalizations; residually finite groups (20E26) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Topological methods in group theory (57M07)

Abstract: The general {�f surface group conjecture} asks whether a one-relator group where every subgroup of finite index is again one-relator and every subgroup of infinite index is free (property IF) is a surface group. We resolve several related conjectures given in [FKMRR]. First we obtain the Surface Group Conjecture B for cyclically pinched and conjugacy pinched one-relator groups. That is: if $G$ is a cyclically pinched one-relator group or conjugacy pinched one-relator group satisfying property IF then $G$ is free, a surface group or a solvable Baumslag-Solitar Group. Further combining results in [FKMRR] on Property IF with a theorem of H. Wilton [W] and results of Stallings [St] and Kharlampovich and Myasnikov [KhM4] we show that Surface Group Conjecture C proposed in [FKMRR] is true, namely: If $G$ is a finitely generated nonfree freely indecomposable fully residually free group with property IF, then $G$ is a surface group.

Review text

A group has property IF if every subgroup of infinite index is free. The general surface group conjecture asks whether a one-relator group where every subgroup of finite index is again one-relator and which has property IF is a surface group. In the paper related problems are treated. A cyclically pinched one-relator group is a one-relator group of the following form: \[ G=\langle a_1,\ldots,a_p,a_{p+1},\ldots,a_n\mid U=V\rangle \] where \(1\neq U\) is a cyclically reduced word in the free group on \(a_1,\ldots,a_p\) and \(1\neq V\) is a cyclically reduced word in the free group on \(a_{p+1},\ldots,a_n\). A conjugacy pinched one-relator group is a one-relator group of the form: \[ G=\langle a_1,\ldots,a_n,t\mid tUt^{-1}=V\rangle \] where \(1\neq U\) and \(1\neq V\) are cyclically reduced in the free group on \(a_1,\ldots,a_n\). The authors show: Theorem 3.1. (1) Let \(G\) be a cyclically pinched one-relator group satisfying property IF. Then \(G\) is a free group or a surface group. (2) Let \(G\) be a conjugacy pinched one-relator group satisfying property IF. Then \(G\) is a free group, a surface group or a solvable Baumslag-Solitar group. Theorem 3.2. Suppose \(G\) is a finitely generated nonfree freely indecomposable fully residually free group satisfying property IF. Then \(G\) is a surface group.

Recommendations

• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5234129
• The classification of one relator limit groups and the surface group conjecture.
• The surface group conjectures for groups with two generators
• One-Relator Groups: An Overview
• On surface groups: motivating examples in combinatorial group theory.

Cites work

• \(\exists\)-free groups
• A combination theorem for negatively curved groups
• Automorphisms and Hopficity of certain Baumslag-Solitar groups
• Diophantine geometry over groups. I: Makanin-Razborov diagrams
• Diophantine geometry over groups. III: Rigid and solid solutions.
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3773855 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1321690 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 495561 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 701926 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1121413 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5234129 (Why is no real title available?)
• Hyperbolic groups and free constructions
• Irreducible affine varieties over a free group. I: Irreducibility of quadratic equations and Nullstellensatz
• Irreducible affine varieties over a free group. II: Systems in triangular quasi-quadratic form and description of residually free groups
• Notes on Sela's work: Limit groups and Makanin-Razborov diagrams
• On generalised free products
• On surface groups: motivating examples in combinatorial group theory.
• On torsion-free groups with infinitely many ends
• One-ended subgroups of graphs of free groups with cyclic edge groups.
• Subgroups of HNN Groups and Groups with one Defining Relation
• Subgroups of finite index of Fuchsian groups
• Subgroups of infinite index in Fuchsian groups
• The Subgroups of a Free Product of Two Groups with an Amalgamated Subgroup

Cited in

(11)

• The isomorphism problem for cyclically pinched one-relator groups
• The classification of one relator limit groups and the surface group conjecture.
• New results on the prefix membership problem for one-relator groups
• On surface groups: motivating examples in combinatorial group theory.
• Virtually free-by-cyclic one-relator groups. I.
• VIRTUAL PROPERTIES OF CYCLICALLY PINCHED ONE-RELATOR GROUPS
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1121413 (Why is no real title available?)
• Stackings and the W-cycles conjecture
• One-Relator Groups: An Overview
• The surface group conjectures for groups with two generators
• Subgroups of cyclically amalgamated free products

This page was built for publication: The surface group conjecture: cyclically pinched and conjugacy pinched one-relator groups.

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q370820)