Realizable ranks of joins and intersections of subgroups in free groups

DOI10.1142/S0218196720500149zbMATH Open1452.20019arXiv1901.04463OpenAlexW3099511351WikidataQ114614796 ScholiaQ114614796MaRDI QIDQ4960465FDOQ4960465

Authors: Ignat Soroko 

Publication date: 16 April 2020

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

Abstract: The famous Hanna Neumann Conjecture (now the Friedman-Mineyev theorem) gives an upper bound for the ranks of the intersection of arbitrary subgroups $H$ and $K$ of a non-abelian free group. It is an interesting question to `quantify' this bound with respect to the rank of $HveeK$, the subgroup generated by $H$ and $K$. We describe a set of realizable values $(rk(HveeK),rk(HcapK))$ for arbitrary $H$, $K$, and conjecture that this locus is complete. We study the combinatorial structure of the topological pushout of the core graphs for $H$ and $K$, with the help of graphs introduced by Dicks in the context of his Amalgamated Graph Conjecture. This allows us to show that certain conditions on ranks of $HveeK$, $HcapK$ are not realizable, thus resolving the remaining open case $m=4$ of Guzman's "Group-Theoretic Conjecture" in the affirmative. This in turn implies the validity of the corresponding "Geometric Conjecture" on hyperbolic $3$-manifolds with a $6$-free fundamental group. Finally, we prove the main conjecture describing the locus of realizable values for the case when $rk(H)=2$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.04463

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zbMATH Keywords

Hanna Neumann conjecturerank of the jointopological pushout

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free nonabelian groups (20E05) Geometric group theory (20F65) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07)

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Uses Software

• GAP
• TikZ
• FGA
• genyoungtabtikz
• pgf

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