Products of conjugacy classes in a free group: a counterexample
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Products of conjugacy classes in a free group: a counterexample
zbMATH Open document ID: 0601.20034
DOI: 10.1007/BF01179420
published in: Mathematische Zeitschrift
publication date: 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: https://eudml.org/doc/173726
review text: The author presents a counterexample to eight published conjectures in combinatorial group theory, the topology of 3-manifolds, and spherical diagrams in a 2-complex, all of these conjectures imply the Kervaire- Laudenbach-Howie Conjecture: a non-singular system of equations with coefficients in a group G has a solution in an overgroup of G.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 20F05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 20E05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 57M20
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 57N10
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 20F06
zbMATH DE Number: 3968893
zbMATH Keywords: Kervaire conjecture
zbMATH Keywords: combinatorial 2-complex
zbMATH Keywords: handlebody
zbMATH Keywords: spherical diagrams
zbMATH Keywords: system of equations
zbMATH Keywords: solution
author: Steve M. Gersten
reviewed by: Steven C. Althoen
MaRDI profile type: Publication
Wikidata QID: Q124815054
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description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3968893