Pure Mathematics: Recent submissions
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Phases of physics in J.D. Forbes’ Dissertation Sixth for the Encyclopaedia Britannica (1856)
(2018-12-03) - Journal articleThis paper takes James David Forbes’ Encyclopaedia Britannica entry, Dissertation Sixth, as a lens to examine physics as a cognitive, practical, and social, enterprise. Forbes wrote this survey of eighteenth- and ... -
Computational techniques in finite semigroup theory
(University of St Andrews, 2019-06-25) - ThesisA semigroup is simply a set with an associative binary operation; computational semigroup theory is the branch of mathematics concerned with developing techniques for computing with semigroups, as well as investigating ... -
Some group presentations with few defining relations
(University of St Andrews, 1990) - ThesisWe consider two classes of groups with two generators and three relations. One class has a similar presentation to groups considered in the paper by C.M. Campbell and R.M. Thomas, ‘On (2,n)-Groups related to Fibonacci ... -
Decision problems in groups of homeomorphisms of Cantor space
(University of St Andrews, 2018-12-06) - ThesisThe Thompson groups $F, T$ and $V$ are important groups in geometric group theory: $T$ and $V$ being the first discovered examples of finitely presented infinite simple groups. There are many generalisations of these groups ... -
On plausible counterexamples to Lehnert's conjecture
(University of St Andrews, 2018) - ThesisA group whose co-word problem is a context free language is called co𝐶𝐹 . Lehnert's conjecture states that a group 𝐺 is co𝐶𝐹 if and only if 𝐺 embeds as a finitely generated subgroup of R. Thompson's group V . In this ...