English

Unsolvable problems about higher-dimensional knots and related groups

Group Theory 2009-08-28 v1

Abstract

We consider classes of fundamental groups of complements of various kinds of codimension 2 embeddings and show that, in general, the problem of deciding whether or not a group in one class belongs to a smaller class is algorithmically unsolvable.

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@article{arxiv.0908.4009,
  title  = {Unsolvable problems about higher-dimensional knots and related groups},
  author = {F. Gonzalez-Acuna and C. McA. Gordon and J. Simon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0908.4009},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

20 pages, AMSLaTeX, accepted for publication in L'Enseignement Mathematique

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