Tame combings, almost convexity and rewriting systems for groups

DOI10.1007/PL00004311zbMath0873.20023OpenAlexW1983964871MaRDI QIDQ1360056

John Meier, Susan M. Hermiller

Publication date: 2 November 1997

Published in: Mathematische Zeitschrift (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/pl00004311

zbMATH Keywords

word problemfundamental groupsuniversal coversfinite presentationsfinite complete rewriting systemsgeometry of groupsalmost convex groupsalgorithmic solutionsclosed irreducible 3-manifoldsgeodesic rewriting systemstame 1-combings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Geometric group theory (20F65) Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05) Word problems, other decision problems, connections with logic and automata (group-theoretic aspects) (20F10) Fundamental groups and their automorphisms (group-theoretic aspects) (20F34)

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