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Finitely generated Howson groups which are not strongly Howson

Abstract

A group G is called a Howson group if the intersection of any two finitely generated subgroups of G is again finitely generated. It is called strongly Howson if, in addition, the rank of such an intersection is bounded only in terms of the ranks of the two subgroups. Strongly Howson groups are indeed Howson. Recently, Zhang and Zhao showed that the converse fails, by constructing the first examples of infinitely generated Howson groups which are not strongly Howson. In this note, we provide finitely generated examples with and without torsion elements, thereby answering a question posed by Zhang and Zhao.

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BibTeX
@misc{wang2026finitely,
  title = {{Finitely generated Howson groups which are not strongly Howson}},
  author = {Ke Wang and Qiang Zhang},
  howpublished = {arXiv},
  year = {2026},
  month = may,
  doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2605.30840},
  eprint = {2605.30840},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.30840},
}
RIS
TY  - UNPB
TI  - Finitely generated Howson groups which are not strongly Howson
AU  - Ke Wang
AU  - Qiang Zhang
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/05/29
PB  - arXiv
DO  - 10.48550/arxiv.2605.30840
UR  - https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.30840
AB  - A group G is called a Howson group if the intersection of any two finitely generated subgroups of G is again finitely generated. It is called strongly Howson if, in addition, the rank of such an intersection is bounded only in terms of the ranks of the two subgroups. Strongly Howson groups are indeed Howson. Recently, Zhang and Zhao showed that the converse fails, by constructing the first examples of infinitely generated Howson groups which are not strongly Howson. In this note, we provide finitely generated examples with and without torsion elements, thereby answering a question posed by Zhang and Zhao.
ER  -