International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 31 (2002), Issue 12, Pages 731-743
doi:10.1155/S0161171202103012

Subgroups of quasi-HNN groups

R. M. S. Mahmood1 and M. I. Khanfar2

1Ajman University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
2Department of Mathematics, Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan

Received 20 March 2001; Revised 20 February 2002

Copyright © 2002 R. M. S. Mahmood and M. I. Khanfar. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

We extend the structure theorem for the subgroups of the class of HNN groups to a new class of groups called quasi-HNN groups. The main technique used is the subgroup theorem for groups acting on trees with inversions.