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Introduction to Ping Pong Lemma
Student-Run Geometry/Topology Seminar| Speaker: | James Forehand, UC Davis |
| Location: | 2112 MSB |
| Start time: | Tue, Feb 16 2010, 12:10PM |
Decomposing groups into free products is important in group theory. This will be an introductory talk to describe ping pong lemma which is a tool which gives us conditions under which a group decomposes as a free product of certain subgroups.