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Subsemigroups of virtually free groups : finite Malcev presentations and testing for freeness

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Date
07/2006
Author
Cain, AJ
Robertson, Edmund Frederick
Ruskuc, Nikola
Funder
EPSRC
Grant ID
EP/C523229/1
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This paper shows that, given a finite subset X of a finitely generated virtually free group F, the freeness of the subsemigroup of F generated by X can be tested algorithmically. (A group is virtually free if it contains a free subgroup of finite index.) It is then shown that every finitely generated subsemigroup, of F has a finite Malcev presentation (a type of semigroup presentation which can be used to define any semigroup that embeds in a group), and that such a presentation can be effectively found from any finite generating set.
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Cain , AJ , Robertson , E F & Ruskuc , N 2006 , ' Subsemigroups of virtually free groups : finite Malcev presentations and testing for freeness ' , Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , vol. 141 , no. 1 , pp. 57-66 . https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305004106009236
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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305004106009236
ISSN
0305-0041
Type
Journal article
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(c)2006 Cambridge Philosophical Society
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URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/1561

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