A new test for asphericity and diagrammatic reducibility of group presentations

DOI10.1017/PRM.2018.126zbMATH Open1442.57008arXiv1601.00604OpenAlexW2963196479MaRDI QIDQ5221046FDOQ5221046

Authors: Jonathan Ariel Barmak, Elias Gabriel Minian 

Publication date: 27 March 2020

Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Section A Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present a new test for studying asphericity and diagrammatic reducibility of group presentations. Our test can be applied to prove diagrammatic reducibility in cases where the classical weight test fails. We use this criterion to generalize results of J. Howie and S.M. Gersten on asphericity of LOTs and of Adian presentations, and derive new results on solvability of equations over groups. We also use our methods to investigate a conjecture of S.V. Ivanov related to Kaplansky's problem on zero divisors: we strengthen Ivanov's result for locally indicable groups and prove a weak version of the conjecture.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.00604

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zbMATH Keywords

asphericitylocally indicable groupsweight testAdian presentationsDR presentationslabelled oriented trees

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05) Cancellation theory of groups; application of van Kampen diagrams (20F06) 2-dimensional topology (including mapping class groups of surfaces, Teichmüller theory, curve complexes, etc.) (57K20)

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