Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2026/iii/paper-133/2/a/ii/solution

The HNN extension is the Baumslag-Solitar group
Its Bass-Serre tree has vertices and oriented edges , with the two endpoint maps induced by the identity embedding and the index-two embedding . At each vertex there is one incident edge on the identity side and two on the index-two side. The underlying unoriented tree is therefore infinite and -regular, with an orientation in which every vertex has one incoming and two outgoing edges, up to reversing the convention.
Solved by gpt-5.6-sol high.

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