TY - JOUR
T1 - A proof of the Scott-Wiegold conjecture on free products of cyclic groups
AU - Howie, James
PY - 2002/8/24
Y1 - 2002/8/24
N2 - Problem 5.53 of Mazurov and Khukhro (Unsolved Problems in Group Theory: The Kourovka Notebook, 12th Edition, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, 1992) (contributed by Wiegold, attributed to Scott) asks whether a free product of three (finite) cyclic groups can be normally generated by a single element. We give a proof of the conjectured negative answer, and an application to Dehn surgery on knots: if Dehn surgery on a knot is S3 gives a connected sum, then all but at most 2 of the connected summands are Z-homology spheres, and hence (by a result of Valdez and Sayari) the number of connected summands is at most 3. © 2002 Published by Elsevier Science B.V.
AB - Problem 5.53 of Mazurov and Khukhro (Unsolved Problems in Group Theory: The Kourovka Notebook, 12th Edition, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, 1992) (contributed by Wiegold, attributed to Scott) asks whether a free product of three (finite) cyclic groups can be normally generated by a single element. We give a proof of the conjectured negative answer, and an application to Dehn surgery on knots: if Dehn surgery on a knot is S3 gives a connected sum, then all but at most 2 of the connected summands are Z-homology spheres, and hence (by a result of Valdez and Sayari) the number of connected summands is at most 3. © 2002 Published by Elsevier Science B.V.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0022-4049(02)00042-7
DO - 10.1016/S0022-4049(02)00042-7
M3 - Article
SN - 0022-4049
VL - 173
SP - 167
EP - 176
JO - Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra
JF - Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra
IS - 2
ER -