On five well-known commutator identities

Graham J. Ellis

doi:10.1017/S1446788700036934

On five well-known commutator identities

Graham J. Ellis

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Abstract

We conjecture that five well-known identities universally satisfied by commutators in a group generate all such universal commutator identities. We use homological techniques to partially prove the conjecture.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-19
Number of pages	19
Journal	Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society
Volume	54
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S1446788700036934
Publication status	Published - Feb 1993

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