The structure of one-relator relative presentations and their centres.

DOI10.1515/JGT.2009.024zbMATH Open1203.20030arXivmath/0701308OpenAlexW3104801526MaRDI QIDQ3401166FDOQ3401166

Anton A. Klyachko

Publication date: 29 January 2010

Published in: Journal of Group Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Suppose that G is a nontrivial torsion-free group and w is a word in the alphabet Gcup{x_1^{pm1},...,x_n^{pm1}} such that the word w' obtained from w by erasing all letters belonging to G is not a proper power in the free group F(x_1,...,x_n). We show how to reduce the study of the relative presentation ^G=<G,x_1,x_2,...,x_n | w=1> to the case n=1. It turns out that an "n-variable" group ^G can be constructed from similar "one-variable" groups using an explicit construction similar to wreath product. As an illustration, we prove that, for n>1, the centre of ^G is always trivial. For n=1, the centre of ^G is also almost always trivial; there are several exceptions, and all of them are known.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0701308

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zbMATH Keywords

one-relator groupsamalgamated productsasphericityrelative presentationscentre

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free products of groups, free products with amalgamation, Higman-Neumann-Neumann extensions, and generalizations (20E06) Extensions, wreath products, and other compositions of groups (20E22) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07) Cancellation theory of groups; application of van Kampen diagrams (20F06) Algebraic geometry over groups; equations over groups (20F70)

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