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The conjugacy problem and Higman embeddings

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A. Yu. Ol′shanskii and M. V. Sapir

Publication: Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society
Publication Year: 2004; Volume 170, Number 804
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-3513-5 (print); 978-1-4704-0405-5 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/memo/0804
MathSciNet review: 2052958
MSC: Primary 20F10; Secondary 20F06

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Table of Contents

Chapters

  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. List of relations
  • 3. The first properties of $\mathcal {H}$
  • 4. The group $\mathcal {H}_2$
  • 5. The word problem in $\mathcal {H}_1$
  • 6. Some special diagrams
  • 7. Computations of $\mathcal {S} \cup \bar {\mathcal {S}}$
  • 8. Spirals
  • 9. Rolls
  • 10. Arrangement of hubs
  • 11. The end of the proof