Generators of the free product with amalgamation of two infinite cyclic groups
Generators of the free product with amalgamation of two infinite cyclic groups
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两个无限循环群合并的自由积生成器
DOI:
10.1007/bf01361856
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发表时间:
1977
影响因子:
1.4
通讯作者:
H. Zieschang
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作者:
H. Zieschang
Two finite sets of elements of a group G are called Nielsen equivalent if there is a homomorphism from a free group F to G such that the sets are the images of two systems of free generators of F. It is a question of long standing [6, 3.6; 16] whether for a group G two systems of generators are Nielsen equivalent. This has long been known to be true for sets of generators of minimal cardinality for free abelian groups of finite rank [6, 3.5. 1; t7] for the fundamental groups of surfaces [10, 12, 27, Satz 6] and for other groups which became more-or-less interesting because of this problem [9, 13, 14, 18, 20-22]. The analogous statement is obviously wrong for finite cyclic groups, but recently there have been emerged interesting families of groups with one defining relation for which it is also wrong [1--4, 7, 8, 13, 19, 20, 27, 28].In [1 3] and [13] are described groups with infinitely many Nielsen equivalence classes of sets of generators of minimal cardinality. We extend [3] and determine all Nielsen equivalence classes of generating pairs for the (torus knot) groups (S, TIS p= Tq), p, q> 2, p+ q> 4 in Theorem 5.1: Each Nielsen equivalence class of generating pairs contains one and only one system S", T b such that gcd (a, p)= gcd (b, q)= gccl (a, b)= 1 and 0< 2a< pb, 0< 2b< qa.(Equality may hold only ifpb or qa equals 2.)