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Regular geodesic normal forms in virtually Abelian groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

Michael Shapiro
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, The University of Melbourne, Parkville Vic 3052, Australia, e-mail: [email protected], [email protected]
Walter D. Neumann
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, The University of Melbourne, Parkville Vic 3052, Australia, e-mail: [email protected], [email protected]
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We describe a virtually Abelian group G generated by a finite set X such that there is no regular language of geodesic X-words that surjects to G by evaluation.

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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1997

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