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Balanced finite presentations of the trivial group

Abstract

We construct a sequence of balanced finite presentations of the trivial group with two generators and two relators with the following property: The minimal number of relations required to demonstrate that a generator represents the trivial element grows faster than the tower of exponentials of any fixed height of the length of the finite presentation.

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Boris Lishak. 2015-04-19. Balanced finite presentations of the trivial group. https://doi.org/10.1142/s1793525317500182

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