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Splittings of Non-Finitely Generated Groups

Group Theory 2016-01-20 v2 Geometric Topology

Abstract

In geometric group theory one uses group actions on spaces to gain information about groups. One natural space to use is the Cayley graph of a group. The Cayley graph arguments that one encounters tend to require local finiteness, and hence finite generation of the group. In this paper, I take the theory of intersections of splittings of finitely generated groups (as developed by Scott, Scott-Swarup, and Niblo-Sageev-Scott-Swarup), and rework it to remove finite generation assumptions. Whereas the aforementioned authors relied on the local finiteness of the Cayley graph, I capitalize on the Bass-Serre trees for the splittings.

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@article{arxiv.1105.5478,
  title  = {Splittings of Non-Finitely Generated Groups},
  author = {Robin M. Lassonde},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1105.5478},
  year   = {2016}
}

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41 pages, 9 figures

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