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Cyclic presentations of the trivial group. (English) Zbl 1044.20016

Summary: We report on a computational group theory experiment involving a search for cyclic presentations of the trivial group. The list of such presentations obtained includes counterexamples to a conjecture of M. J. Dunwoody.

MSC:

20F05 Generators, relations, and presentations of groups
68W30 Symbolic computation and algebraic computation
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