Date
Wed, 21 Nov 2012
16:00
Location
SR2
Speaker
Andrew Sale
Organisation
University of Oxford

Let F be a free group, and N a normal subgroup of F with derived subgroup N'. The Magnus embedding gives a way of seeing F/N' as a subgroup of a wreath product of a free abelian group over over F/N. The aim is to show that the Magnus embedding is a quasi-isometric embedding (hence "Q.I." in the title). For this I will use an alternative geometric definition of the embedding (hence "picture"), which I will show is equivalent to the definition which uses Fox calculus. Please note that we will assume no prior knowledge of calculus.

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