A proof of the Scott-Wiegold conjecture on free products of cyclic groups

DOI10.1016/S0022-4049(02)00042-7zbMath1026.20019OpenAlexW1982626960WikidataQ123198083 ScholiaQ123198083MaRDI QIDQ1612164

James Howie

Publication date: 22 August 2002

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/s0022-4049(02)00042-7

zbMATH Keywords

presentationsrepresentationsDehn surgeryone-relator productsconnected sumslens spacesfree products of cyclic groupsScott-Wiegold conjecture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05) Free products of groups, free products with amalgamation, Higman-Neumann-Neumann extensions, and generalizations (20E06)

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