Minimal presentations of groups

This thesis proposes two new families of counter examples to the celebrated relation gap problem: firstly certain finite-index subgroups of right-angled Artin groups, and secondly groups with torsion arising as free products of HNN extensions of finite abelian groups. We prove a number of results re...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tweedale, Michael Peter
Other Authors: Bridson, Martin R.
Published: Imperial College London 2007
Subjects:
Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.429171