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A recursive presentation for Mihailova's subgroup

Group Theory 2008-10-06 v1

Abstract

We give an explicit recursive presentation for Mihailova's subgroup M(H)M(H) of Fn×FnF_n \times F_n corresponding to a finite, concise and Peiffer aspherical presentation H=<x1,...,xnR1,...,Rm>H=< x_1,..., x_n \mid R_1,..., R_m>. This partially answers a question of R.I. Grigorchuk, [8, Problem 4.14]. As a corollary, we construct a finitely generated recursively presented orbit undecidable subgroup of Aut(F3)Aut(F_3).

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@article{arxiv.0810.0690,
  title  = {A recursive presentation for Mihailova's subgroup},
  author = {O. Bogopolski and E. Ventura},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.0690},
  year   = {2008}
}

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9 pages

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