Seminar series
Date
Tue, 17 May 2011
17:00
17:00
Location
L2
Speaker
Dr Khalid Bou-Rabee
Organisation
Michigan
In 1939, Wilhelm Magnus gave a characterization of free groups in terms of their rank and nilpotent quotients. Our goal in this talk is to present results giving both positive and negative answers to the following question: does a similar characterization hold within the class of finite-extensions of finitely generated free groups? This talk covers joint work with Brandon Seward.