Seminario Teoría de Grupos ICMAT-UAM 
 
Miercoles 7/11/2018, 11:30, Aula 520, UAM 
 
Ponente: Jim Howie (Heriot Watt University) 
 
 
Title:  One-relator products of locally indicable groups 
 
Abstract: A group is said to be locally indicable if each of its 
non-trivial, finitely generated subgroups admits an epimorphism onto the 
inifite cyclic group.  A one-relator product is the quotient of a free 
product of groups by the normal closure of a single element (not 
conjugate into one of thre free factors). Much of the rich theory of 
one-relator groups can be generalised to one-relator products of locally 
indicable groups.  In this talk I will survey some older results in this 
area, present some more recent joint results with Hamish Short, and 
discuss some open questions.