Seminar series
Date
Wed, 06 Nov 2019
16:00
16:00
Location
C1
Speaker
Sam Shepherd
Organisation
University of Oxford
A graph of groups decomposition is a way of splitting a group into smaller and hopefully simpler groups. A natural thing to try and do is to keep splitting until you can't split anymore, and then argue that this decomposition is unique. This is the idea behind JSJ decompositions, although, as we shall see, the strength of the uniqueness statement for such a decomposition varies depending on the class of groups that we restrict our edge groups to