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ALGEBRAIC RANKS OF THE FUNDAMENTAL GROUPS OF HIGH DIMENSIONAL GRAPH MANIFOLDS

  • Received : 2020.04.27
  • Accepted : 2020.11.02
  • Published : 2021.03.31
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Abstract

The fundamental group of a high dimensional graph manifold canonically has a graph of groups structure. We analyze the group action on the associated Bass-Serre tree and study the algebraic ranks of the fundamental groups of high dimensional graph manifolds.

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