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Zariski closures and subgroup separability

Louder, L; McReynolds, DB; Patel, P; (2017) Zariski closures and subgroup separability. Selecta Mathematica , 23 (3) pp. 2019-2027. 10.1007/s00029-016-0300-8. Green open access

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Abstract

The main result of this article is a refinement of the well-known subgroup separability results of Hall and Scott for free and surface groups. We show that for any finitely generated subgroup, there is a finite dimensional representation of the free or surface group that separates the subgroup in the induced Zariski topology. As a corollary, we establish a polynomial upper bound on the size of the quotients used to separate a finitely generated subgroup in a free or surface group.

Type: Article
Title: Zariski closures and subgroup separability
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1007/s00029-016-0300-8
Publisher version: http://doi.org/ 10.1007/s00029-016-0300-8
Language: English
Additional information: © 2017 The Author(s). This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
Keywords: 20E05; 20E26
UCL classification: UCL
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URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1527619
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