On the Geometry of Normal Forms in Discrete Groups

DOI10.1112/PLMS/S3-67.3.596MaRDI QIDQ4287038zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Martin R. Bridson

Publication date 12 April 1994

Published in Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1112/plms/s3-67.3.596

zbMATH Keywords

1-relator groupsabelian-by-cycliccombingsfinite complete rewriting systemfinitely generated groupsfinitely presented groupsfree- by-cyclicisoperimetric and isodiametric inequalitiesnormal formsword problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Cancellation theory of groups; application of van Kampen diagrams (20F06) Word problems, other decision problems, connections with logic and automata (group-theoretic aspects) (20F10) Geometric group theory (20F65)

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