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Given a group $G = H_1 \ast_A H_2$ which is the free product of two finitely generated groups $H_1$ and $H_2$ with amalgamation over a cyclic subgroup $A$ which is malnormal in $G$, we study relations between the structure of its subgroups…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Martin Kreuzer , Anja Moldenhauer , Gerhard Rosenberger

This paper is devoted to the computation of the space $H_b^2(\Gamma,H;\mathbb{R})$, where $\Gamma$ is a free group of finite rank $n\geq 2$ and $H$ is a subgroup of finite rank. More precisely we prove that $H$ has infinite index in…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2015-03-31 Cristina Pagliantini , Pascal Rolli

We prove an estimate for the rank of the intersection of free subgroups in virtually free groups, which is analogous to the Hanna Neumann inequality for subgroups in a free group and to the S.V. Ivanov estimate for subgroups in free…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2013-11-05 Alexander Zakharov

The famous Hanna Neumann Conjecture (now the Friedman-Mineyev theorem) gives an upper bound for the ranks of the intersection of arbitrary subgroups $H$ and $K$ of a non-abelian free group. It is an interesting question to `quantify' this…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2020-04-13 Ignat Soroko

We show that on an arbitrary finitely generated non virtually solvable linear group, any two independent random walks will eventually generate a free subgroup. In fact, this will hold for an exponential number of independent random walks.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2019-12-19 Richard Aoun

Let $G$ be a finitely generated solvable-by-finite linear group. We present an algorithm to compute the torsion-free rank of $G$ and a bound on the Pr\"{u}fer rank of $G$. This yields in turn an algorithm to decide whether a finitely…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2019-05-14 A. S. Detinko , D. L. Flannery , E. A. O'Brien

We extend the classical Stallings theory (describing subgroups of free groups as automata) to direct products of free and abelian groups: after introducing enriched automata (i.e., automata with extra abelian labels), we obtain an explicit…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-06-13 Jordi Delgado , Enric Ventura

We propose an algorithm which for any recursive group $G$, given by its effectively enumerable generators and recursively enumerable relations, outputs an explicit embedding of $G$ into a finitely presented group directly written by its…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-22 V. H. Mikaelian

Let $F$ be a finitely generated free group and let $H\le F$ be a finitely generated subgroup. Given an element $g\in F$, we study the ideal $\mathfrak{I}_g$ of equations for $g$ with coefficients in $H$, i.e. the elements $w(x)\in H*\langle…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-25 Dario Ascari

Let $\sigma =\{\sigma_i |i\in I\}$ is some partition of all primes $\mathbb{P}$ and $G$ a finite group. A subgroup $H$ of $G$ is said to be $\sigma$-subnormal in $G$ if there exists a subgroup chain $H=H_0\leq H_1\leq \cdots \leq H_n=G$…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2020-07-23 Chi Zhang , Wenbin Guo

We show that the membership problem in a finitely generated submonoid of a graph group (also called a right-angled Artin group or a free partially commutative group) is decidable if and only if the independence graph (commutation graph) is…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2007-07-19 Markus Lohrey , Benjamin Steinberg

We show that the following problems are decidable in a rank 2 free group F_2: does a given finitely generated subgroup H contain primitive elements? and does H meet the orbit of a given word u under the action of G, the group of…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2018-04-25 Pedro Silva , Pascal Weil

In this article we generalize the theory of subgroup graphs of subgroups of free groups to finite index subgroups $H$ of finitely generated groups $G$. We study and prove various properties of $H$ in relation to its subgroup graph…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2016-03-23 Cora Welsch

We investigate accessible subgroups of a profinite group $G$, i.e. subgroups $H$ appearing as vertex groups in a graph of profinite groups decomposition of $G$ with finite edge groups. We prove that any accessible subgroup $H \leq G$ arises…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2024-10-23 Julian Wykowski

We explore an elementary construction that produces finitely presented groups with diverse homological finiteness properties -- the {\em binary subgroups}, $B(\Sigma,\mu)<G_1\times\dots\times G_m$. These full subdirect products require…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-09-01 Martin R. Bridson

A proper subsemigroup of a semigroup is maximal if it is not contained in any other proper subsemigroup. A maximal subsemigroup of a finite semigroup has one of a small number of forms, as described in a paper of Graham, Graham, and Rhodes.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-07-09 C. R. Donoven , J. D. Mitchell , W. A. Wilson

Stallings folding theory is modified, using double coset representatives, and to applied to the study of subgroups of amalgamated products of finite rank free groups. As a first application the subgroup membership problem for such groups is…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2013-05-22 Andrew Duncan , Elizaveta Frenkel

Let $F$ be a finite-rank free group and $H$ be a finite-rank subgroup of $F$. We discuss proofs of two algorithms that sandwich $H$ between an upper-layer free-product factor of $F$ that contains $H$ and a lower-layer free-product factor of…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2015-05-12 Warren Dicks

Let $H, K$ be two finitely generated subgroups of a free group, let $\langle H, K \rangle$ denote the subgroup generated by $H, K$, called the join of $H, K$, and let neither of $H$, $K$ have finite index in $\langle H, K \rangle$. We prove…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2016-08-03 Sergei V. Ivanov

We show that the generation problem in Thompson group $F$ is decidable, i.e., there is an algorithm which decides if a finite set of elements of $F$ generates the whole $F$. The algorithm makes use of the Stallings $2$-core of subgroups of…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2021-05-04 Gili Golan