Dear George, Thank you very much. One of examples is
F:=FreeGroup(3);x:=F.1;y:=F.2;z:=F.3;a:=x*y;b:=x*z;c:=y*z; R:=[x^2,y^2,z^2,a^4,b^4,c^4, (a^2*z)^4,(b^2*y)^4,(c^2*x)^4, (a^2*b^2)^4,(a^2*c^2)^4,(b^2*c^2)^4,(x*y*z*y)^4,(x*z*y*z)^4,(z*x*y*x)^4]; G:=F/R; w:=(x*y*z*x*z*y*x*y*z*x*z)^2; Best wishes, Victor. 2011/6/1 GH UQ <ha...@itee.uq.edu.au> > On Wed, 1 Jun 2011, Victor D. Mazurov wrote: > > > Suppose that GAP shows (using coset enumeration algorithm) that a group > > $G=<F| R>$ where $F$ is a finitely generated free group and $R$ is a > finite > > set of words in $F$ is finite. Let $w\in F$ such that the image of $w$ > in > > $G$ is 1. How one can find (using GAP) some $r_1,...,r_m\in (R\cup > R^{-1})$ > > and $t_1,...,t_m\in F$ such that $w=r_1^{t_1}\cdots r_m^{t_m}$? Best > wishes, > > V.D. Mazurov > > > In 2006 Dale Sutherland developed a Gap package for PEACE (proof > extraction after coset enumeration) which can do this. PEACE is described > in "On proofs in finitely presented groups" by George Havas and Colin > Ramsay, Groups St Andrews 2005, Volume II, London Mathematical Society > Lecture Note Series 340, Cambridge University Press (2007), 475-485. > > Applications of PEACE appear in various places including: > Dale's PhD Thesis (St Andrews, 2006); > "The Fa,b,c conjecture is true, II" by George Havas, Edmund F. Robertson > and Dale C. Sutherland, Journal of Algebra 300 (2006), 57-72; > "Andrews-Curtis and Todd-Coxeter proof words" by George Havas and Colin > Ramsay, Groups St Andrews 2001 in Oxford, Volume I, London Mathematical > Society Lecture Note Series 304, Cambridge University Press (2003) > 232-237. > > The GAP package has not been generally released (as far as I know). > I have a stand-alone version which I am happy to consider trying to > use to solve specific problems, if desired. > > Best wishes... George Havas http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~havas > -- Victor Danilovich Mazurov Institute of Mathematics Novosibirsk 630090 Russia _______________________________________________ Forum mailing list Forum@mail.gap-system.org http://mail.gap-system.org/mailman/listinfo/forum