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The soluble subgroups of a one-relator group with torsion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2009

B. B. Newman
B. B. Newman
Affiliation:
James Cook UniversityTownsville, Queensland, 4810, Australia
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In a survey article [1] Baumslag posed the problem of determining the abelian subgroups of a one-relator group. The solution of this problem was stated but not proved in [5], and partly solved by Moldavanskii [4]. In this paper it will be proved that the centralizer of every non-trivial element in a one-relator group with torsion is cyclic, and that the soluble subgroups of a one-relator groups with torsion are cyclic groups or the infinite dihedral group. That both types of groups may occur as subgroups is easily seen by considering

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Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 16 , Issue 3 , November 1973 , pp. 278 - 285
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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1973

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