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Howson groups which are not strongly Howson

Group Theory 2024-09-17 v1 Geometric Topology

Abstract

A group GG is called a Howson group if the intersection HKH\cap K of any two finitely generated subgroups H,K<GH, K<G is again finitely generated, and called a strongly Howson group when a uniform bound for the rank of HKH\cap K can be obtained from the ranks of HH and KK. Clearly, every strongly Howson group is a Howson group, but it is unclear in the literature whether the converse is true. In this note, we show that the converse is not true by constructing the first Howson groups which are not strongly Howson.

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@article{arxiv.2409.09567,
  title  = {Howson groups which are not strongly Howson},
  author = {Qiang Zhang and Dongxiao Zhao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.09567},
  year   = {2024}
}

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