Presentations for subgroups of Artin groups
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- by Warren Dicks and Ian J. Leary PDF
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Abstract:
Recently, M. Bestvina and N. Brady have exhibited groups that are of type $FP$ but not finitely presented. We give explicit presentations for groups of the type considered by Bestvina-Brady. This leads to algebraic proofs of some of their results.References
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Additional Information
- Warren Dicks
- Affiliation: Departament de Matemàtiques, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, E-08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain
- Email: dicks@manwe.mat.uab.es
- Ian J. Leary
- Affiliation: Faculty of Mathematical Studies, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom
- Email: ijl@maths.soton.ac.uk
- Received by editor(s): May 17, 1997
- Additional Notes: W. Dicks acknowledges support from the DGICYT (Spain) through grant number PB93-0900
I. Leary acknowledges support from the Nuffield Foundation through grant number SCI/180/96/127, and from EPSRC grant number GR/L06928 - Communicated by: Ronald M. Solomon
- © Copyright 1999 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 127 (1999), 343-348
- MSC (1991): Primary 20F36; Secondary 20E07, 20F32
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-99-04873-X
- MathSciNet review: 1605948