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Isomorphism of the Baumslag-Solitar groups

✍ Scribed by D. I. Moldavanskii


Book ID
112474971
Publisher
Springer
Year
1991
Tongue
English
Weight
229 KB
Volume
43
Category
Article
ISSN
0041-5995

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We show that the Baumslag-Solitar relation x n = yx m y -1 cannot hold in a nondegenerate way in the fundamental group of an orientable 3-manifold. This generalizes a result proved by Jaco and Shalen for the case of a Haken manifold. The generalization uses the general version of the Torus Theorem,