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One-relator quotients of free products

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Stephen J. Pride
Stephen J. Pride
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University of Glasgow
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Let I be a set with |I| > 1, let Hi(i ∈ I) be nontrivial groups and let H = *i ∈ IHi 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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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 88 , Issue 2 , September 1980 , pp. 233 - 243
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1980

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