Proper decompositions of finitely presented groups
For a finitely presented group G, determining whether it admits a proper decomposition as an amalgamated free product or HNN-extension is often not straightforward. In a presentation 2-complex for G, there are special subsets called patterns and tracks. Bass-Serre theory and van Kampen's theore...
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University of Southampton
2000
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