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Equations with torsion-free coefficients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

Andrew Clifford  and
Richard Z. Goldstein
Andrew Clifford
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, The College of New Jersey, PO Box 7718, Ewing, NJ 08628-0718, USA
Richard Z. Goldstein
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, State University of New York at Albany, Albany, NY 12222, USA
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Abstract

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In this paper we generalize techniques used by Klyachko and the authors to prove some tessellation results about S2. These results are applied to prove the solvability of certain equations with torsion-free coefficients.

Keywords

equations over groupsrelative pictures
Type
Research Article
Information
Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society , Volume 43 , Issue 2 , June 2000 , pp. 295 - 307
Copyright
Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 2000

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