Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society

Author(s): V. Metaftsis; E. Raptis
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 132 (2004), 1873-1884.
MSC (2000): Primary 20E05, 20E06, 20E26
Posted: November 26, 2003
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Abstract: In the present paper we give necessary and sufficient conditions for the subgroup separability of the fundamental group of a finite graph of groups with finitely generated abelian vertex groups.

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V. Metaftsis
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of the Aegean, Karlovassi, 832 00 Samos, Greece
Email: vmet@aegean.gr

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