Square-free words as products of commutators
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Elements of the commutator subgroup of a free group F can be presented as values of canonical forms, called Wicks forms. We show that, starting from sufficiently high genus g, there is a sequence of words wg which can be presented by f .g/ distinct Wicks forms, where f .g/ > gŠ. Moreover we may choose these words wg to be square-free. Mathematics Subject Classification (2000). 20E05, 20F10.
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