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Deficiency and abelianized deficiency of some virtually free groups
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Let $Q_m$ be the HNN extension of $\Z/m \times \Z/m$ where the stable letter conjugates the first factor to the second. We explore small presentations of the groups $\Gamma_{m,n}=Q_m \ast Q_n$. We show that for certain choices of (m,n), for example (2,3), the group $\Gamma_{m,n}$ has a relation gap unless it admits a presentation with at most 3 defining relations, and we establish restrictions on the possible form of such a presentation. We then associate to each (m,n) a 3-complex with 16 cel...
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- Published
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- Journal:
- MATHEMATICAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE CAMBRIDGE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY
- Volume:
- 143
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 257-264
- Publication date:
- 2006-07-26
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1469-8064
- ISSN:
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0305-0041
- Source identifiers:
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19428
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- English
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pubs:19428
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- pubs:19428
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- 2012-12-19
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- 2006
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7 pages; no figures. Minor changes; now to appear in Math. Proc.
Camb. Phil. Soc
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