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The Power Problem for Groups with One Defining Relator

James McCool

Year: 1971 Journal:   Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society Vol: 28 (2)Pages: 427-427   Publisher: American Mathematical Society

Abstract

It is proved that if G is a group with one defining relator, then the generalized word problem is solvable for every cyclic subgroup of G.This result enables the solution of the word problem for groups with one defining relator to be extended to a wider class of groups.

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Mathematics Word problem (mathematics education) Word (group theory) Class (philosophy) Group (periodic table) Power (physics) Pure mathematics Combinatorics Algebra over a field Arithmetic Computer science Artificial intelligence Geometry

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