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Presentations of Groups

โœ Scribed by D. L. Johnson


Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1997
Tongue
English
Leaves
228
Series
London Mathematical Society Student Texts #15
Edition
2
Category
Library

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โœฆ Table of Contents


Title page
Contents
Preface to the Second Edition
1. Free groups
2. Schreier's method
3. Nielsen's method
4. Free presentations of groups
5. Some popular groups
6. Finitely-generated abelian groups
7. Finite groups with few relations
8. Coset enumeration
9. Presentations of subgroups
10. Presentations of group extensions
11. Relation modules
12. An algorithm for N/N'
13. Finite p-groups
14. The nilpotent quotient algorithm
15. The Golod-Shafarevich theorem
16. Proving some groups infinite
Guide to the literature and references
Index
Dramatis Personae


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Presentations of Groups
โœ D. L. Johnson ๐Ÿ“‚ Library ๐Ÿ“… 1976 ๐Ÿ› Cambridge University Press ๐ŸŒ English

Primarily an introduction to combinatorial group theory, this book has the secondary aim of introducing a wide variety of examples of groups and types of groups. The emphasis is algebraic rather than topological. The only background required is some basic knowledge of linear algebra, group theory an