scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1445260

MaRDI QIDQ4952571zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors O. V. Zetkina

Publication date 25 September 2000

zbMATH Keywords

braid groupsfree productslinear groupsquotient groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free products of groups, free products with amalgamation, Higman-Neumann-Neumann extensions, and generalizations (20E06) Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07) Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Unimodular groups, congruence subgroups (group-theoretic aspects) (20H05)

Review text

Let \(A*B\) denote the free product of two groups \(A\) and \(B\). The author proves that some groups do not have quotient groups of the form \(A*B\) with \(|A|\geq 2\) and \(|B|\geq 2\). These groups include the linear groups \(\text{GL}(n,\mathbb{Z})\) (\(n\geq 2\)), \(\text{PGL}(n,\mathbb{Z})\) (\(n\geq 2\)), \(\text{SL}(n,\mathbb{Z})\) (\(n\geq 3\)), \(\text{PSL}(n,\mathbb{Z})\) (\(n\geq 3\)), and the braid groups \(B(n)\) (\(n\geq 5\)). Moreover, if \(A*B\) with \(|A|\geq|B|\geq 2\) is a homomorphic image of \(B(4)\), \(B(3)\), \(\text{SL}(2,\mathbb{Z})\), or \(\text{PSL}(2,\mathbb{Z})\), then \(|A|=3\) and \(|B|=2\). For the entire collection see [Zbl 0919.00012].

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• Class 2 quotients of solvable linear groups
• Quotient groups of groups of certain classes
• A Note on Free Products of Linear Groups
• Rationality of quotients by linear actions of affine groups

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