scholarly journals CANNON–THURSTON MAPS FOR KLEINIAN GROUPS

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
MAHAN MJ

We show that Cannon–Thurston maps exist for degenerate free groups without parabolics, that is, for handlebody groups. Combining these techniques with earlier work proving the existence of Cannon–Thurston maps for surface groups, we show that Cannon–Thurston maps exist for arbitrary finitely generated Kleinian groups without parabolics, proving conjectures of Thurston and McMullen. We also show that point pre-images under Cannon–Thurston maps for degenerate free groups without parabolics correspond to endpoints of leaves of an ending lamination in the Masur domain, whenever a point has more than one pre-image. This proves a conjecture of Otal. We also prove a similar result for point pre-images under Cannon–Thurston maps for arbitrary finitely generated Kleinian groups without parabolics.

2008 ◽  
Vol 15 (01) ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gilbert Baumslag ◽  
Oleg Bogopolski ◽  
Benjamin Fine ◽  
Anthony Gaglione ◽  
Gerhard Rosenberger ◽  
...  

We consider some questions concerning finiteness properties in infinite groups which are related to Marshall Hall's theorem. We call these properties Property S and Property R, and they are trivially true in finite groups. We give several elementary proofs using these properties for results on finitely generated subgroups of free groups as well as a new elementary proof of Hall's basic result. Finally, we consider these properties within surface groups and prove an analog of Hall's theorem in that context.


1999 ◽  
Vol 126 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. E. A. JOHNSON

The subgroup structure of a direct product of two Fuchsian groups is very complicated; for example, Baumslag and Roseblade [1] have shown that a direct product Fm1×Fm2 of finitely generated free groups contains continuously many distinct isomorphism classes of finitely generated subgroups. The situation is much simpler, however, if attention is restricted to finitely generated normal subgroups of Fm1×Fm2; then on general grounds one cannot expect to get more than a countable infinity, but, in fact, the situation is almost finite; we showed, in [4], that Fm1×Fm2 contains precisely 1+min{m1, m2} orbits of maximal normal subdirect products under the natural action of its automorphism group.In this paper we study the situation which arises if the free groups Fmi are replaced by fundamental groups of closed surfaces. This question was previously considered by Nigel Carr in the final chapter of his (unpublished) thesis [2]. By appealing to the relative invariant theory of pairs of skew bilinear forms, Carr was able to show that in a direct product Σg1×Σg2 of orientable surface groups of genus [ges ]2 the number of orbits of maximal normal subdirect products is always infinite. Here we refine and extend Carr's approach to study the manner in which the finiteness result of [4] breaks down on passing to more general Fuchsian groups.


2006 ◽  
Vol 16 (06) ◽  
pp. 1031-1045 ◽  
Author(s):  
NICHOLAS W. M. TOUIKAN

Stalling's folding process is a key algorithm for solving algorithmic problems for finitely generated subgroups of free groups. Given a subgroup H = 〈J1,…,Jm〉 of a finitely generated nonabelian free group F = F(x1,…,xn) the folding porcess enables one, for example, to solve the membership problem or compute the index [F : H]. We show that for a fixed free group F and an arbitrary finitely generated subgroup H (as given above) we can perform the Stallings' folding process in time O(N log *(N)), where N is the sum of the word lengths of the given generators of H.


1971 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gilbert Baumslag

We establish the result that a finitely generated cyclic extension of a free group is residually finite. This is done, in part, by making use of the fact that a finitely generated module over a principal ideal domain is a direct sum of cyclic modules.


2012 ◽  
Vol 22 (04) ◽  
pp. 1250030
Author(s):  
LUCAS SABALKA ◽  
DMYTRO SAVCHUK

Let G be a finitely generated free, free abelian of arbitrary exponent, free nilpotent, or free solvable group, or a free group in the variety AmAn, and let A = {a1,…, ar} be a basis for G. We prove that, in most cases, if S is a subset of a basis for G which may be expressed as a word in A without using elements from {al+1,…, ar} for some l < r, then S is a subset of a basis for the relatively free group on {a1,…, al}.


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