Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät

Institut für Mathematik

Fachgebiet: Algebra

Betreuer: Prof. Dr. Jan-Christoph Schlage-Puchta



Dipl. -Math. Albrecht Brehm
(e-mail: albrecht.brehm@uni-rostock.de )

On the geometry of finite index subgroups of groups acting properly on locally finite trees and polyhedral complexes

Let G be a group acting properly on a simply connected manifold. There is a fundamental domain DG for that action. The map, which assigns to each subgroup Δ of finite index its fundamental domain DΔ yields a correspondence between coverings of DG of finite degree and finite index subgroups of G. We are interested in the question how the branching points behave under the transition from DG to its finite covers. This work presents an approach which allows to solve such questions in a purely group theoretical framework. This approach is applied to a concrete example.