Nonexistence of one-vertex JSJ quotients of a free product

Let FF be the free group appearing in the free product Fx,yF*\langle x,y\rangle. A quotient is fully residually FF if it has the residual property relative to FF, and its JSJ decomposition has vertex groups. One-vertex JSJ conjecture. There are no fully residually FF quotients of Fx,yF*\langle x,y\rangle whose JSJ decomposition has only one vertex group. This conjecture asserts that every such quotient must have a JSJ decomposition with more than one vertex group; the source presents it as a conjecture without providing evidence of a resolution.

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Nicholas W. M. Touikan, “The fully residually F quotients of F*<x,y>”, arXiv:0810.1509 (2010).

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