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INTERSECTIONS OF SUBGROUPS IN VIRTUALLY FREE GROUPS AND VIRTUALLY FREE PRODUCTS

Part of: Structure and classification of infinite or finite groups Graph theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2019

ANTON A. KLYACHKO  and
ANASTASIA N. PONFILENKO
ANTON A. KLYACHKO*
Affiliation:
Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, Moscow State University, Leninskie gory, Moscow 119991, Russia email [email protected]
ANASTASIA N. PONFILENKO
Affiliation:
Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, Moscow State University, Leninskie gory, Moscow 119991, Russia email [email protected]
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Abstract

This note contains a (short) proof of the following generalisation of the Friedman–Mineyev theorem (earlier known as the Hanna Neumann conjecture): if $A$ and $B$ are nontrivial free subgroups of a virtually free group containing a free subgroup of index $n$, then $\text{rank}(A\cap B)-1\leq n\cdot (\text{rank}(A)-1)\cdot (\text{rank}(B)-1)$. In addition, we obtain a virtually-free-product analogue of this result.

Keywords

virtually free groupvirtually free productHanna Neumann conjecture

MSC classification

Primary: 20E05: Free nonabelian groups
Secondary: 05C25: Graphs and abstract algebra (groups, rings, fields, etc.) 20E06: Free products, free products with amalgamation, Higman-Neumann-Neumann extensions, and generalizations 20E08: Groups acting on trees 20E15: Chains and lattices of subgroups, subnormal subgroups
Type
Research Article
Information
Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 101 , Issue 2 , April 2020 , pp. 266 - 271
Copyright
© 2019 Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc.

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Footnotes

The work of the first author was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, project no. 19-01-00591.

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