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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.