Malnormal subgroups and Frobenius groups: basics and examples

de la Harpe, Pierre ; Weber, Claude

Confluentes Mathematici, Tome 6 (2014), p. 65-76 / Harvested from Numdam

Résumé

Malnormal subgroups occur in various contexts. We review a large number of examples, and compare the general situation to that of finite Frobenius groups of permutations.

In a companion paper [18], we analyse when peripheral subgroups of knot groups and $3$-manifold groups are malnormal.

Détail

Publié le : 2014-01-01
DOI : https://doi.org/10.5802/cml.13
Classification:  20B07,  20B05

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