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This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation, and partly by CNPq and FINEP while the author was visiting at the Universidade de Brasilia.

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Lyndon, R.C. Equations in groups. Bol. Soc. Bras. Mat 11, 79–102 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02584882

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