On proper powers in free products and Dehn surgery

DOI10.1016/0022-4049(88)90061-8zbMath0649.20026OpenAlexW2000327458MaRDI QIDQ1105695

Steven Boyer

Publication date: 1988

Published in: Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-4049(88)90061-8

zbMATH Keywords

wordsknotsfree productsDehn surgerynormal closures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free nonabelian groups (20E05) 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)

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