In its most classical formulation, the Cohen-Lyndon property encodes independence between the relators in a group presentation. It is an interesting structural property that has been proven to hold, in one form or another, for various classes of groups. In this talk I’ll tell you a little bit about how the Cohen-Lyndon property arises naturally in connection to asphericity, and I will discuss some important families of examples.
Asphericity and the Cohen-Lyndon property in small-cancellation
12.12.2023 15:00 - 17:00
Organiser:
G. Arzhantseva, Ch. Cashen
Location: