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Groups with trivial Schur multiplicator

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2009

J. W. Wamsley
Affiliation:
The Flinders University of South Australia
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Let G be a finite group generated by n elements and defined by m relators, then G has a presentation where F free on generators x1, …, xn, and R is the normal closure in F of R1, …, Rm. The deficiency of this presentation is nm and the deficiency of Gis the maximum over all presentations for G.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1973

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