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We study direct products of free-abelian and free groups with special emphasis on algorithmic problems. After giving natural extensions of standard notions into that family, we find an explicit expression for an arbitrary endomorphism of…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2013-01-14 J. Delgado , E. Ventura

We exploit Zlil Sela's description of the structure of groups having the same elementary theory as free groups: they and their finitely generated subgroups form a prescribed subclass E of the hyperbolic limit groups. We prove that if…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2010-12-14 Martin R Bridson , James Howie

We present obstruction results for self-similar groups regarding the generation of free groups. As a main consequence of our main results, we solve an open problem posed by Grigorchuk by showing that in an automaton group where a…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-10 Daniele D'Angeli , Emanuele Rodaro

We answer a question raised by Pillay, that is whether the infinite weight of the generic type of the free group is witnessed in $F_{\omega}$. We also prove that the set of primitive elements in finite rank free groups is not uniformly…

Logic · Mathematics 2011-04-15 Rizos Sklinos

For any left orderable group G, we recall from work of McCleary that isolated points in the space of left orderings correspond to basic elements in the free lattice ordered group over G. We then establish a new connection between the…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2009-09-03 Adam Clay

Let $M$ be a $\rm II_1$ factor and let $\mathcal{F}(M)$ denote the fundamental group of $M$. In this article, we study the following property of $M$: for arbitrary $\rm II_1$ factor $B$, we have $\mathcal{F}(M \overline{\otimes}…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2019-02-05 Yusuke Isono

We prove that a random group, in Gromov's density model with $d < 1/16$ satisfies with overwhelming probability a universal-existential first-order sentence $\sigma$ (in the language of groups) if and only if $\sigma$ is true in a…

Logic · Mathematics 2022-12-23 Olga Kharlampovich , Rizos Sklinos

We present a unified categorical treatment of completeness theorems for several classical and intuitionistic infinitary logics with a proposed axiomatization. This provides new completeness theorems and subsumes previous ones by G\"odel,…

Logic · Mathematics 2019-01-01 Christian Espíndola

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the structure of Shlyakhtenko's free Araki-Woods factors using the framework of ultraproduct von Neumann algebras. We first prove that all the free Araki-Woods factors $\Gamma(H_{\mathbb R},…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2025-07-17 Cyril Houdayer , Sven Raum

Using an analogue of the Guionnet-Jones-Shlaykhtenko construction for graphs we show that their construction applied to any subfactor planar algebra of finite depth yields an inclusion of interpolated free group factors with finite…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2010-03-25 Vijay Kodiyalam , V. S. Sunder

A subgroup $H$ of a free group $F$ is called inert in $F$ if for every $G < F$ the rank of the intersection of $H$ with $G$ is no grater than the rank of $G$. In this paper we expand the known families of inert subgroups. We show that the…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2014-12-23 Amnon Rosenmann

We study analogues of classical Hilbert transforms as fourier multipliers on free groups. We prove their complete boundedness on non commutative $L^p$ spaces associated with the free group von Neumann algebras for all $1<p<\infty$. This…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2017-10-18 Tao Mei , Eric Ricard

We discuss in the context of finite extensions two classical theorems of Takahasi and Howson on subgroups of free groups. We provide bounds for the rank of the intersection of subgroups within classes of groups such as virtually free…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2014-12-11 Vitor Araujo , Pedro V. Silva , Mihalis Sykiotis

This paper concerns exponential contravariant functors on free groups. We obtain an equivalence of categories between analytic, exponential contravariant functors on free groups and conilpotent cocommutative Hopf algebras. This result…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-01-18 Minkyu Kim , Christine Vespa

Let $F \ast G$ be a free product of a free group $F$ and a LERF group $G$. In this note, we provide sufficient conditions for a subgroup $H$ of $F \ast G$ to be $\mathcal{A} \cup \mathcal{S}$-separable, that is, for any finite set…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-22 Dongxiao Zhao , Qiang Zhang

In the context of Free Probability Theory, we study two different constructions that provide new examples of factors of type ${\rm II_1}$ with prescribed fundamental group. First we investigate state-preserving group actions on the almost…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2025-07-17 Cyril Houdayer

We prove that the normalizer of any diffuse amenable subalgebra of a free group factor $L(\Bbb F_r)$ generates an amenable von Neumann subalgebra. Moreover, any II$_1$ factor of the form $Q \vt L(\Bbb F_r) $, with $Q$ an arbitrary subfactor…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2007-10-30 Narutaka Ozawa , Sorin Popa

The result often known as Joiner's lemma is fundamental in understanding the topology of the free topological group $F(X)$ on a Tychonoff space$X$. In this paper, an analogue of Joiner's lemma for the free paratopological group $\FP(X)$ on…

General Topology · Mathematics 2012-05-17 Ali Sayed Elfard , Peter Nickolas

Measure free factors are a generalization of the notion of free factors of a group, in a measure theoretic context. We find new families of cyclic measure free factors of free groups and some virtually free groups, following a question by…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2012-02-14 Juan Alonso

Proofs are traditionally syntactic, inductively generated objects. This paper reformulates first-order logic (predicate calculus) with proofs which are graph-theoretic rather than syntactic. It defines a combinatorial proof of a formula…

Logic · Mathematics 2019-06-27 Dominic J. D. Hughes