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On small cancellation theory over H.N.N. extensions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2011

J. Perraud
Affiliation:
Institut de Mathématiques et d'Informatique, Université de Nantes, France

Synopsis

Small cancellation theory has been extended to symmetrized subsets of free products, amalgamated free products and Higman-Neumann-Neumann (H.N.N.) extensions. We though that it was possible to obtain results on decision problems if we could define small cancellation conditions for finite subsets.

Sacerdote and Schupp (1974) defined the small cancellation condition C'(l/6) for symmetrized subsets of an H.N.N. extension. We define this condition for finite subsets, with the following properties:

For each finite subset X, there is a symmetrized subset X1 with the same normal closure and, if X1 satisfies C'(l/6), then X satisfies C'(l/6).

For some H.N.N. extensions, we can decide whether any finite subset satisfies C'(l/6), and, in this case, we can solve the word problem for the corresponding quotient.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1983

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