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Cayley graphs and group presentations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Richard M. Thomas
Affiliation:
Department of Computing Studies, University of Leicester, Leicester LEI 1RH

Extract

The aim of this paper is to prove the following result:

Theorem. Let G be the group defined by the presentation

where each ui is a word in the xj and , and suppose that there is a homomorphism σ such that the orders of the elements respectively. Let If G is finite, then α−d + 1 > 0 and .

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1988

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