scientific article; zbMATH DE number 15571
covering-spacefinitely generated subgroupfundamental groupfundamental group of graph of groupsgraph of groupsLERF groupM. Hall propertyprofinite topology
Free products of groups, free products with amalgamation, Higman-Neumann-Neumann extensions, and generalizations (20E06) Residual properties and generalizations; residually finite groups (20E26) Geometric group theory (20F65) Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05) Covering spaces and low-dimensional topology (57M10)
[For the entire collection see Zbl 0703.00011.] In [Contemp. Math. 33, 90-115 (1984; Zbl 0571.20015)] \textit{A. M. Brunner}, \textit{D. Solitar} and the reviewer showed by technical combinatorial-group theoretic means that \(A*_ UB\) is LERF if \(A\), \(B\) are free and \(U\) is cyclic. (A group \(G\) is said to be LERF if every finitely generated subgroup is closed in the profinite topology on \(G\).) In the present paper this is generalized to the fundamental group \(\pi_ 1(\Gamma,{\mathcal G})\) of a graph of groups, where \(\Gamma\) is a finite tree, each vertex group is free, and each edge group is cyclic. For such groups (and others where the vertex groups are finite ``potent rather than free) conditions are given ensuring they have the stronger ``generalized M. Hall property. The proofs, using covering-space theory, are much shorter than in the above-mentioned paper. There is also a useful list of the classes of groups known to be LERF or have the M. Hall property, and a remark illuminating the role of the LERF property in 3-dimensional topology.
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