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Joel David Hamkins
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In the general case, to determine whether some relations imply another given relation is an undecidable problem. If it were decidable, then we could decide whether a given finite presentation was a presenting the trivial group (a known undecidable problem), by testing whether the generators are all redundant.

Joel David Hamkins
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