Explicit solutions of certain orientable quadratic equations in free groups
Abstract
For denote by the free group on generators and by . For and elements we study orientable quadratic equations of the form with unknowns and provide explicit solutions for them for the minimal possible number . In the particular case when , for and the minimal number which satisfies we provide two types of solutions depending on the image of the subgroup generated by the solution under the natural homomorphism : the first solution, which is called a primitive solution, satisfies , the second solution satisfies . We also provide an explicit solution of the equation for in , and prove that if , then every solution of this equation is primitive. As a geometrical consequence, for every solution we obtain a map from the orientable surface of genus to the torus which has the minimal number of roots among all maps from the homotopy class of . Depending on the number such maps have fundamentally different geometric properties: in some cases they satisfy the Wecken property and in other cases not.
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@article{arxiv.1808.08456,
title = {Explicit solutions of certain orientable quadratic equations in free groups},
author = {D. L. Gonçalves and T. Nasybullov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.08456},
year = {2018}
}