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Balanced presentations of the trivial group on two generators and the Andrews-Curtis conjecture

Group Theory 2007-05-23 v1 Symbolic Computation

Abstract

The Andrews-Curtis conjecture states that every balanced presentation of the trivial group can be reduced to the standard one by a sequence of the elementary Nielsen transformations and conjugations. In this paper we describe all balanced presentations of the trivial group on two generators and with the total length of relators <= 12. We show that all these presentations satisfy the Andrews-Curtis conjecture.

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@article{arxiv.math/0304305,
  title  = {Balanced presentations of the trivial group on two generators and the Andrews-Curtis conjecture},
  author = {Alexei D. Miasnikov and Alexei G. Myasnikov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0304305},
  year   = {2007}
}

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