A counterexample to a strong version of the Andrews-Curtis conjecture

Abstract

We prove that the presentations x,y | [x,y],1 and x,y | [x,[x,y-1]]2y[y-1,x]y-1,[x,[[y-1,x],x]] are not Q*-equivalent even though their standard complexes have the same simple homotopy type.

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