Commutators and squares in free groups.

DOI10.2140/AGT.2004.4.595MaRDI QIDQ1880644zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Sucharit Sarkar

Publication date 30 September 2004

Published in Algebraic \& Geometric Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0409087, https://eudml.org/doc/124158, http://www.emis.de/journals/UW/agt/AGTVol4/agt-4-27.abs.html

zbMATH Keywords

free groupsproducts of commutatorsproducts of squares

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free nonabelian groups (20E05) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Commutator calculus (20F12)

Abstract: Let F_2 be the free group generated by x and y. In this article, we prove that the commutator of x^m and y^n is a product of two squares if and only if mn is even. We also show using topological methods that there are infinitely many obstructions for an element in F_2 to be a product of two squares.

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