The conjugacy problem for Dehn twist automorphisms of free groups

Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 179-200

  Cohen, Marshall M ^a   Lustig, Martin ^b  

^a Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Algorithm; Centralizer; Conjugacy problem; Dehn twist automorphism; Fixed subgroup; Free group; Graph of groups decomposition; Index; Normal form

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039523373     PISSN: 00102571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s000140050085     Document Type: Article

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