The derived group of a permutation representation

DOI10.1016/0001-8708(84)90020-3MaRDI QIDQ798984zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Richard H. Crowell

Publication date 1984

Published in Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0001-8708(84)90020-3

zbMATH Keywords

Alexander matricesalgebra of liftings of closed pathscovering spacesfree groupfree productknot groupspresentation of a subgroupReidemeister-Schreier algorithm

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Fundamental groups and their automorphisms (group-theoretic aspects) (20F34) Geometric group theory (20F65) Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05) Covering spaces and low-dimensional topology (57M10)

Review text

The author describes an algebraic construction which unifies in a single theory the basic algebra associated with knot groups, Alexander matrices, and covering spaces. The construction is modelled on the algebra of liftings of closed paths in a base space B to paths in a covering space E of B. The object constructed is a group A. The author proves a structure theorem for this group which, in the model case, exhibits the group as the free product of \(\pi_ 1(E)\) with a free group. The author uses the construction to give an elegant formulation of the Reidemeister-Schreier algorithm for finding a presentation of a subgroup of a presented group.

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