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Limits of covering spaces and residual properties of groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 May 2009

Jon Michael Corson
Jon Michael Corson
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Department of Mathematics, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0350, USA E-mail: jcorson@ ualvm.ua.edu
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The purpose of this paper is to point out a flaw in H. B. Griffiths' covering space approach to residual properties of groups [3]. One is led to this paper from Lyndon and Schupp's book [4, pp. 114, 141] where it is cited for covering space methods and a proof that F-groups are residually finite. However the main result of [3] is false.

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Research Article
Information
Glasgow Mathematical Journal , Volume 36 , Issue 3 , September 1994 , pp. 277 - 282
Copyright
Copyright © Glasgow Mathematical Journal Trust 1994

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