Intersections and joins of free groups

A corollary of this, also obtained by L Louder and D B McReynolds, has been used by M Culler and P Shalen to obtain information regarding the volumes of hyperbolic $3$ –manifolds.

We also prove the following particular case of the Hanna Neumann Conjecture, which has also been obtained by Louder. If $H \lor K$ has rank at least $(h + k + 1) ∕ 2$ , then $H \cap K$ has rank no more than $(h - 1) (k - 1) + 1$ .

Keywords

free group, rank, intersection, join, Hanna Neumann Conjecture

Mathematical Subject Classification 2000

Primary: 20E05

Secondary: 57M50

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Received: 31 January 2008

Revised: 18 August 2008

Accepted: 28 January 2009

Published: 23 February 2009

Authors

Richard Peabody Kent IV
Department of Mathematics Brown University Providence, RI 02912

Volume 9, issue 1 (2009)

Richard Peabody Kent IV

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Mathematical Subject Classification 2000

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