Virtually geometric words and Whitehead's algorithm.

DOI10.4310/MRL.2010.V17.N5.A9zbMATH Open1236.20029arXiv0904.0724OpenAlexW2963884337MaRDI QIDQ2275744FDOQ2275744

Authors: Jason Fox Manning 

Publication date: 9 August 2011

Published in: Mathematical Research Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Motivated by a question of Gordon and Wilton, we consider the question of which collections of words are "virtually geometric". In particular, we prove that some words (e.g. bbaaccabc) are not virtually geometric.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0904.0724

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zbMATH Keywords

geometric presentationsWhitehead graphsconjugacy classes in free groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free nonabelian groups (20E05) Free products of groups, free products with amalgamation, Higman-Neumann-Neumann extensions, and generalizations (20E06) Conjugacy classes for groups (20E45) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Geometric group theory (20F65) Topological methods in group theory (57M07)

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