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A presentation for a group of automorphisms of a simplicial complex

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 May 2009

M. A. Armstrong
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The Bass–Serre theorem supplies generators and relations for a group of automorphisms of a tree. Recently K. S. Brown [2] has extended the result to produce a presentation for a group of automorphisms of a simply connected complex, the extra ingredient being relations which come from the 2-cells of the complex. Suppose G is the group, K the complex and L the 1-skeleton of K. Then an extension of π1(L) by G acts on the universal covering space of L (which is of course a tree) and Brown's technique is to apply the work of Bass and Serre to this action. Our aim is to give a direct elementary proof of Brown's theorem which makes no use of covering spaces, deals with the Bass–Serre theorem as a special case and clarifies the roles played by the various generators and relations.

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Research Article
Information
Glasgow Mathematical Journal , Volume 30 , Issue 3 , September 1988 , pp. 331 - 337
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Copyright © Glasgow Mathematical Journal Trust 1988

References

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