On the Andrews-Curtis conjecture and algorithms from topology
Group Theory
2007-05-23 v1 Geometric Topology
Abstract
We relate the Andrews-Curtis conjecture to the triviality problem for balanced presentations of groups using algorithms from 3-manifold topology. Implementing this algorithm could lead to counterexamples to the Andrews-Curtis conjecture.
Cite
@article{arxiv.math/0108053,
title = {On the Andrews-Curtis conjecture and algorithms from topology},
author = {Siddhartha Gadgil},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0108053},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
12 pages, 7 figures