Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 July 2010
INTRODUCTION
A generalised triangle group is a group with presentation
where l, m, n are integers greater than 1, and w is a word of the form
κ > 1, 0 < ai < l, 0 < βi < m for ali i, which is not a proper power. We say that two words w and v are equivalent if we can transform one to the other by a sequence of the following moves
cyclic permutation;
inversion;
automorphism of ℤl or ℤm; or
interchanging the two free factors (if l = m);
and we write w ∼ ν. If in the presentation 1.1, we replace w by an equivalent word ν, then we get an isomorphic copy of G. Thus it is enough to study generalised triangle groups up to equivalence of w.
It is well known that the ordinary triangle groups
satisfy a Tits alternative. That is, they either contain a soluble subgroup of finite index or have a non-abelian free subgroup. In, Rosenberger asks whether a Tits alternative holds for generalised triangle groups.
Work in shows this conjecture to be true except possibly where κ > 4 and (l, m, n) = (3,3,2), (3,4,2), (3,5,2) or (2, m, 2) (m ≥ 3). It is this last case we address here.
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