Seminar series
Date
Wed, 21 Oct 2020
10:00
10:00
Location
Virtual
Speaker
Dario Ascari
Organisation
University of Oxford
Primitive elements are elements that are part of a basis for a free group. We present the classical Whitehead algorithm for the recognition of such elements, and discuss the ideas behind the proof. We also present a second algorithm, more recent and completely different in the approach.