Abstract
AbstractThe first result gives a (modest) improvement of the best general bound known to date for the rank of the intersection U ∩ V of two finite-rank subgroups of a free group F in terms of the ranks of U and V. In the second result it is deduced from that bound that if A is a finite-rank subgroup of F and B < F is non-cyclic, then the index of A ∩ B in B, if finite, is less than 2(rank(A) - 1), whence in particular if rank (A) = 2, then B ≤ A. (This strengthens a lemma of Gersten.) Finally a short proof is given of Stallings' result that if U, V (as above) are such that U ∩ V has finite index in both U and V, then it has finite index in their join 〈U, V〉.
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