Unsolvable problems about higher-dimensional knots and related groups

DOI10.4171/LEM/56-1-5zbMATH Open1213.57004MaRDI QIDQ993658FDOQ993658

Authors F. González-Acuña, Cameron McA. Gordon, Jonathan K. Simon

Publication date 20 September 2010

Published in L'Enseignement Mathématique. 2e Série (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0908.4009

zbMATH Keywords

presentationalgorithmknotknot groupword problemMarkov propertyunsolvable

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05)

Abstract: We consider classes of fundamental groups of complements of various kinds of codimension 2 embeddings and show that, in general, the problem of deciding whether or not a group in one class belongs to a smaller class is algorithmically unsolvable.

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