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Finitely presented subgroups of a product of two free groups
1 LATP, UMR 6632, Centre de Mathématiques et d'Informatique, 39 Rue Joliot-Curie, Université de Provence, F13453, Marseille Cedex 13, France, e-mail: hamish{at}cmi.univ-mrs.fr
We use van Kampen diagram techniques to give a new geometric proof of the Baumslag and Roseblade result that a non-free finitely presented subgroup of a direct product of two free groups is virtually a product of subgroups of the factors.
Received 21 September 1998.