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Timeline for Unique words in dihedral groups

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Aug 18, 2017 at 1:12 comment added Bjørn Kjos-Hanssen I'm interested in when we can have $\varphi(x)^2=1$... might ask about that later
Aug 18, 2017 at 0:32 history edited Bjørn Kjos-Hanssen CC BY-SA 3.0
improved formatting
Aug 17, 2017 at 15:05 history edited Luc Guyot CC BY-SA 3.0
Fixed wrong conclusion of Proof of Claim 2, case (1).
Aug 17, 2017 at 5:46 history edited Luc Guyot CC BY-SA 3.0
Added two forgotten, and obvious, admissible words in the proof of Claim 3.
Aug 17, 2017 at 2:46 vote accept Bjørn Kjos-Hanssen
Aug 17, 2017 at 2:45 comment added Bjørn Kjos-Hanssen Looks great. And yes there is no case (4): $a$ and $b$ are non-commuting and both of order $>2$, because the elements are of the form $r^ks$ and $r^k$ where $s^2=1$, and $(r^ks)^2=r^kr^{-k}ss=1$.
Aug 16, 2017 at 23:16 history edited Luc Guyot CC BY-SA 3.0
Stress on positivity of the answer
Aug 16, 2017 at 23:08 history answered Luc Guyot CC BY-SA 3.0