A GENERAL SMALL CANCELLATION THEORY

DOI10.1142/S0218196700000029zbMath0980.20019MaRDI QIDQ2703071

Jonathan P. McCammond

Publication date: 19 November 2001

Published in: International Journal of Algebra and Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

presentationsautomorphism groupsword problemhyperbolic groupscategoriessmall cancellation theoryconjugacy problemCW complexesCayley complexesDehn's algorithmvan Kampen lemma

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Geometric group theory (20F65) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Automorphism groups of groups (20F28) Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05) Word problems, other decision problems, connections with logic and automata (group-theoretic aspects) (20F10) Group actions on manifolds and cell complexes in low dimensions (57M60) Cancellation theory of groups; application of van Kampen diagrams (20F06)

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Cites Work

• Fixed-point sets of group actions on finite acyclic complexes
• Generalized small cancellation theory and applications. I. The word problem
• On torsion-free groups with infinitely many ends
• THE SOLUTION TO THE WORD PROBLEM FOR THE RELATIVELY FREE SEMIGROUPS SATISFYING T^a = T^a+b WITH a ≥ 6
• THE FREE BURNSIDE GROUPS OF SUFFICIENTLY LARGE EXPONENTS

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