Presentations of Groups

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Author(s): D. L. Johnson
Series: London Mathematical Society Student Texts #15
Edition: 2
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 1997

Language: English
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Title page
Contents
Preface to the Second Edition
1. Free groups
2. Schreier's method
3. Nielsen's method
4. Free presentations of groups
5. Some popular groups
6. Finitely-generated abelian groups
7. Finite groups with few relations
8. Coset enumeration
9. Presentations of subgroups
10. Presentations of group extensions
11. Relation modules
12. An algorithm for N/N'
13. Finite p-groups
14. The nilpotent quotient algorithm
15. The Golod-Shafarevich theorem
16. Proving some groups infinite
Guide to the literature and references
Index
Dramatis Personae