The Burnside problem for odd exponents

MaRDI QIDQ6509385arXivFDO

Authors A. Atkarskaya, Eliyahu Rips, Katrin Tent

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Geometric group theory (20F65) Cancellation theory of groups; application of van Kampen diagrams (20F06)

Abstract: We show that the free Burnside groups $B(n,m)$ are infinite for $ngeq557$ and $mgeq2$. The proof uses iterated small cancellation theory where the induction based on the nesting depth of relators. The main instrument at every step is a new concept of a certification sequence. This decreases the best known lower bound in the Burnside problem for odd exponents from 665 to 557.

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