Alternating quotients of free groups
Abstract
We strengthen Marshall Hall's Theorem to show that free groups are locally extended residually alternating. Let F be any free group of rank at least two, let H be a finitely generated subgroup of infinite index in F and let g1,...,gn be a finite subset of F-H. Then there is a surjection f from F to a finite alternating group such that f(gi) is not in f(H) for any i. The techniques of this paper can also provide symmetric quotients.
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