PRIMITIVITY PRESERVING ENDOMORPHISMS OF FREE GROUPS

DOI10.1081/AGB-120013224MaRDI QIDQ4532462zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Donghi Lee

Publication date 22 September 2002

Published in Communications in Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0103110

zbMATH Keywords

automorphismsfree groupsprimitivity preserving endomorphisms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free nonabelian groups (20E05) Automorphisms of infinite groups (20E36)

Abstract: An endomorphism of a free group is called primitivity preserving if it takes every primitive element to another primitive. In this paper we prove that every primitivity preserving endomorphism of a free group of a finite rank n > 2 is an automorphism.

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