Subgroups of free idempotent generated semigroups need not be free
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freegeneratedidempotentsemigroupexamplemaximalsubgroupsubgroups
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We use topological methods to study the maximal subgroups of the free idempotent generated semigroup on a biordered set. We use these to give an example of a free idempotent generated semigroup with maximal subgroup isomorphic to the free abelian group of rank 2. This is the first example of a non-free subgroup of a free idempotent generated semigroup.
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