Timeline for Solutions to some equations in a free group
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| Jan 14, 2011 at 11:13 | vote | accept | ADL | ||
| Dec 24, 2010 at 18:52 | comment | added | HJRW | Well, Mark, both of these sets of ideas go into Sela's work. As you surely know, the train tracks that Bill mentions are, in a sense, dual to actions on R-trees. I wanted to make the point that our answers are not as different as they might superficially appear. | |
| Dec 24, 2010 at 18:12 | comment | added | user6976 | Sela's proof is founded on Rips's theory of groups acting on R-trees which, in turn, is founded on Makanin-Razborov theory of equations in free groups. | |
| Dec 24, 2010 at 0:31 | comment | added | HJRW | Perhaps I should add that Sela's work is founded on the sort of ideas that Bill sketches in his answer. | |
| Dec 24, 2010 at 0:29 | history | answered | HJRW | CC BY-SA 2.5 |