{
  "id": "math/9712212",
  "version": "v2",
  "published": "1997-12-02T16:03:23.000Z",
  "updated": "1998-09-07T00:00:00.000Z",
  "title": "The symmetry of intersection numbers in group theory",
  "authors": [
    "Peter Scott"
  ],
  "comment": "19 pages. Published copy, also available at http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/gt/GTVol2/paper2.abs.html . Includes erratum added to the original, published 19 Mar 1998",
  "journal": "Geom. Topol. 2 (1998), 11-29",
  "categories": [
    "math.GT",
    "math.GR"
  ],
  "abstract": "For suitable subgroups of a finitely generated group, we define the intersection number of one subgroup with another subgroup and show that this number is symmetric. We also give an interpretation of this number.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v2",
      "updated": "1998-09-07T00:00:00.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "20F32",
      "20E06",
      "20E07",
      "20E08",
      "57M07"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "intersection number",
      "group theory",
      "suitable subgroups"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 19,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}