The free-extension characterization of algebraic extensions

Let HJH\leq J be subgroups of a free group F\mathbf{F}. Let F\mathbf{F}' be a free extension of F\mathbf{F}, meaning that FF\mathbf{F}\leq\mathbf{F}' and F\mathbf{F}' is free, and let XX be a basis of F\mathbf{F}'. Write HXJH\leq_{{\scriptscriptstyle \overset{\twoheadrightarrow}{X}}}J when the canonical morphism from the Stallings core graph ΓX(H)\Gamma_X(H) to ΓX(J)\Gamma_X(J) is onto. Modified algebraic-extension conjecture. Then

HalgJif and only ifHXJH\leq_{alg}J\quad\text{if and only if}\quad H\leq_{{\scriptscriptstyle \overset{\twoheadrightarrow}{X}}}J

for every free extension F\mathbf{F}' of F\mathbf{F} and every basis XX of F\mathbf{F}'. This proposed modification is presented after the original conjecture is shown to fail, and the source gives no resolution of it.

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Ori Parzanchevski and Doron Puder, “Stallings Graphs, Algebraic Extensions and Primitive Elements in F2”, arXiv:1210.6574 (2012).

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