Mathematics – Group Theory
Scientific paper
2006-10-28
Geometric group theory, Geneva and Barcelona conferences, Birkha\"user (Ed.) (2007) 225-253
Mathematics
Group Theory
35 pages
Scientific paper
The aim of this paper is to unify the points of view of three recent and independent papers (Ventura 1997, Margolis, Sapir and Weil 2001 and Kapovich and Miasnikov 2002), where similar modern versions of a 1951 theorem of Takahasi were given. We develop a theory of algebraic extensions for free groups, highlighting the analogies and differences with respect to the corresponding classical field-theoretic notions, and we discuss in detail the notion of algebraic closure. We apply that theory to the study and the computation of certain algebraic properties of subgroups (e.g. being malnormal, pure, inert or compressed, being closed in certain profinite topologies) and the corresponding closure operators. We also analyze the closure of a subgroup under the addition of solutions of certain sets of equations.
Miasnikov Alexei
Ventura Enric
Weil Pascal
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