Technical Remarks |
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Chapter 1 Basic Concepts |
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1 | (11) |
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1.2 Construction of groups from generators and defining relators |
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12 | (12) |
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1.3 Dehn's fundamental problems |
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24 | (9) |
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1.4 Definition and elementary properties of free groups |
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33 | (15) |
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1.5 Tietze transformations |
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48 | (8) |
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56 | (15) |
Chapter 2 Factor Groups and Subgroups |
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71 | (3) |
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2.2 Verbal subgroups and reduced free groups |
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74 | (12) |
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2.3 Presentations of subgroups (The Reidemeister-Schreier method) |
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86 | (18) |
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2.4 Subgroups of free groups |
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104 | (16) |
Chapter 3 Nielsen Transformations |
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120 | (1) |
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121 | (19) |
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3.3 The commutator quotient group |
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140 | (13) |
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3.4 A test for isomorphism |
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153 | (9) |
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3.5 The automorphism group Φn of free groups |
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162 | (7) |
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3.6 Free automorphisms and free isomorphisms |
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169 | (3) |
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3.7 Braid groups and mapping class groups |
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172 | (8) |
Chapter 4 Free Products and Free Products with Amalgamations |
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180 | (17) |
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4.2 Free product with amalgamated subgroups |
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197 | (30) |
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4.3 Subgroup theorems for free and amalgamated products |
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227 | (25) |
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4.4 Groups with one defining relator |
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252 | (35) |
Chapter 5 Commutator Calculus |
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287 | (1) |
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5.2 Commutator identities |
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288 | (4) |
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5.3 The lower central series |
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292 | (6) |
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5.4 Some freely generated graded algebras |
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298 | (10) |
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5.5 A mapping of a free group into Α(Ζ, r) |
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308 | (9) |
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5.6 Lie elements and basis theorems |
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317 | (19) |
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5.7 The lower central series of free groups |
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336 | (13) |
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349 | (8) |
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357 | (11) |
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5.10 The Baker-Hausdorff formula |
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368 | (5) |
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5.11 Power relations and commutator relations |
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373 | (6) |
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5.12 Burnside's problem, Exponents 3 and 4 |
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379 | (7) |
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5.13 Burnside's problem, Report on e > 4 |
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386 | (2) |
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388 | (5) |
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5.15 Free differential calculus |
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393 | (3) |
Chapter 6 Introduction to Some Recent Developments |
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6.1 Word, conjugacy, and related problems |
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396 | (5) |
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6.2 Adjunction and embedding problems |
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401 | (5) |
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406 | (4) |
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410 | (3) |
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6.5 Residual and Hopfian properties |
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413 | (8) |
References |
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421 | (15) |
List of Theorems, Corollaries, and Definitions |
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436 | (2) |
List of Symbols and Abbreviations |
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438 | (3) |
Index |
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