Cutting sequences and palindromes.

MaRDI QIDQ3567909zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Jane Gilman, Linda Keen

Publication date 17 June 2010

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0803.0234

zbMATH Keywords

free groupsprimitive wordspalindromic words

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free nonabelian groups (20E05) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Combinatorics on words (68R15)

Abstract: We give a unified geometric approach to some theorems about primitive elements and palindromes in free groups of rank 2. The geometric treatment gives new proofs of the theorems. Dedicated to Bill Harvey on his 65th birthday.

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• On some properties palindromes of automorphisms of a free group

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