A division Algorithm for the Free Left Distributive Algebra
Abstract
The normal form theorem, proved in R. Laver, On the left distributive law and the freeness of an algebra of elementary embeddings, Advances in Mathematics 91 (1992), 209-231, for the free algebra A on one generator x satisfying the left distributive law a(bc) = (ab)(ac) is extended by showing that members of A can be put into a "division form."
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