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Residually free
$3$–manifolds
Henry Wilton |
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Algebraic & Geometric Topology 8 (2008) 2031–2047
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Abstract |
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We classify those compact –manifolds with incompressible toral boundary whose fundamental groups are residually free. For example, if such a manifold is prime and orientable and the fundamental group of is nontrivial then , where is a surface. |
Keywords
3-manifolds, free groups, geometric group theory
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Mathematical Subject Classification 2000
Primary: 20F65, 57N10
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Publication
Received: 6 February 2008
Revised: 5 September 2008
Accepted: 10 September 2008
Published: 28 October 2008
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Authors |
| Henry Wilton | |
| Department of Mathematics University of Texas 1 University Station C1200 Austin, TX 78712-0257 USA |
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