Deficiency and abelianized deficiency of some virtually free groups

Details Deficiency and abelianized deficiency of some virtually free groups Deficiency and abelianized deficiency of some virtually free groups

2006-07-26

arxiv.org/abs/math/0607671v2

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Group Theory

7 pages; no figures. Minor changes; now to appear in Math. Proc. Camb. Phil. Soc

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Let $Q_m$ be the HNN extension of $\Z/m \times \Z/m$ where the stable letter conjugates the first factor to the second. We explore small presentations of the groups $\Gamma_{m,n}=Q_m \ast Q_n$. We show that for certain choices of (m,n), for example (2,3), the group $\Gamma_{m,n}$ has a relation gap unless it admits a presentation with at most 3 defining relations, and we establish restrictions on the possible form of such a presentation. We then associate to each (m,n) a 3-complex with 16 cells. This 3-complex is a counterexample to the D(2) conjecture if $\Gamma_{m,n}$ has a relation gap.

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