The LMS JCM, (2) 28-61. Published 22 Apr 1999. First received 07 Jan 1999.


Free crossed resolutions of groups and presentations of modules of identities among relations

Ronald Brown and Abdul Razak Salleh



Abstract: The paper gives formulae for a module presentation of the module of identities among relations for a presentation of a group, in terms of information on 0- and 1-combings of the Cayley graph. These formulae are seen as a special case of formulae for extending a partial free crossed resolution of a group, given a partial contracting homotopy of the universal cover of the partial resolution.

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