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One-relator quotients of free products

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Stephen J. Pride
Affiliation:
University of Glasgow

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Let I be a set with |I| > 1, let Hi(iI) be nontrivial groups and let H = *iIHi be their free product. Let R be a cyclically reduced element of Hi and write

if G is (isomorphic to) H/{R}H.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1980

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