A description of fixed subgroups of free groups

Abstract

Let F be a finitely generated free group. Martino and Ventura gave an explicit description for the fixed subgroups of automorphisms of F. The author generalizes their results to injective endomorphisms.

Keywords

Fixed subgroups / Injective endomorphisms / Free groups / Ranks

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