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Balanced presentations of the trivial group on two generators and the Andrews-Curtis conjecture

Alexei D. Miasnikov, Alexei G. Myasnikov

math.GRarXiv:math/0304305

Abstract

The Andrews-Curtis conjecture states that every balanced presentation of the trivial group can be reduced to the standard one by a sequence of the elementary Nielsen transformations and conjugations. In this paper we describe all balanced presentations of the trivial group on two generators and with the total length of relators <= 12. We show that all these presentations satisfy the Andrews-Curtis conjecture.

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