The genus problem for one-relator products of locally indicable groups

DOI10.1007/BF02571522zbMath0724.20024MaRDI QIDQ2644766

James Howie, Andrew J. Duncan

Publication date: 1991

Published in: Mathematische Zeitschrift (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://eudml.org/doc/174313

zbMATH Keywords

commutatorslocally indicable groupsquadratic equationsgenus problemcommutativity relationsone-relator productpictures on compact surfaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05) Free products of groups, free products with amalgamation, Higman-Neumann-Neumann extensions, and generalizations (20E06) Word problems, other decision problems, connections with logic and automata (group-theoretic aspects) (20F10) Local properties of groups (20E25) Commutator calculus (20F12) Cancellation theory of groups; application of van Kampen diagrams (20F06)

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