On a conjecture in Artin groups

It is conjectured that an irreducible Artin group which is of infinite type has trivial center. The conjecture is known to be true for two-dimensional Artin groups and for a few other types of Artin groups. In this work, we show that the conjecture holds true for Artin groups which satisfy a condition stronger than being of infinite type. We use small cancellation theory of relative presentations.

On the geometry of burnside quotients of torsion free hyperbolic groups

In this paper, we detail the geometrical approach of small cancellation theory used by Delzant and Gromov to provide a new proof of the infiniteness of free Burnside groups and periodic quotients of torsion-free hyperbolic groups.

GRAPH SMALL CANCELLATION THEORY APPLIED TO ALTERNATING LINK GROUPS

We show that the Wirtinger presentation of a prime alternating link group satisfies a generalized small cancellation condition. This new version of Weinbaum's solution to the word and conjugacy problems for these groups easily extends to finite sums of alternating links.

SOLUTION OF THE MEMBERSHIP PROBLEM FOR CERTAIN RATIONAL SUBSETS OF ONE-RELATOR GROUPS WITH A SMALL CANCELLATION CONDITION

Let n ≥ 2 be a natural number, X = { x1,…, xn} and let F be the free group, freely generated by X. Let R be a cyclically reduced word in F such that its symmetric closure [Formula: see text] in F satisfies the small cancellation condition C′(1/5) & T(4). Let G be the group presented by [Formula: see text]. A Magnus subsemigroup of G is any subsemigroup of G generated by at most 2n - 1 elements of [Formula: see text]. In this paper we solve the Membership Problem for rational subsets of G which are contained in a Magnus subsemigroup of G, provided that [Formula: see text] satisfies certain combinatorial conditions. We use small cancellation theory with word combinatorics.