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On words of minimal length under endomorphisms of a free group

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Charles C. Edmunds
Charles C. Edmunds
Affiliation:
Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
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In (1) it is remarked that theorem 5·10 is an analogue, for endomorphisms of a free group, of a result of A. Shenitzer ((3), theorem 2) about automorphisms. With this in mind, D. Solitar asked the author if there might also be an analogue for the corollary on page 276 of(3). There is such an analogue and, after a preliminary discussion of definitions and notation, we will describe it.

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Research Article
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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 83 , Issue 2 , March 1978 , pp. 191 - 194
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1978

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