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A Short Combinatorial Proof of the Vaught Conjecture
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
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In [5] R. C. Lyndon gave the first proof of the Vaught conjecture: that if a, b9 and c are elements of a free group F such that a2b2=c2, then ab=ba. Lyndon's proof has been followed by many alternative proofs and generalizations [1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14] all of which involve rather long combinatorial arguments or group theoretical arguments of a noncombinatorial nature.This note provides a short, purely combinatorial proof of the Vaught conjecture.
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