A new test for asphericity and diagrammatic reducibility of group presentations

DOI10.1017/PRM.2018.126MaRDI QIDQ5221046zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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)

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

zbMATH Keywords

Adian presentationsasphericityDR presentationslabelled oriented treeslocally indicable groupsweight test

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) 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) Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05)

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.

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