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Recognizing free groups

As indicated in the comments, it's undecidable in general to take as input a finite presentation of a group and try to output whether or not this group is free or not. This is a direct consequence of …
Carl-Fredrik Nyberg Brodda's user avatar
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Some questions on a paper of Baumslag and Solitar

I'll write out the answer to your first question (solving the word problem in one-relator groups) for how one might do this in practice. I'll focus on the case $\ell = 2, m=3, p=2$, but you'll hopeful …
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Howson property of automorphism group of $F_2$ and of $F_3$

Is the intersection of any two finitely generated subgroups of $\operatorname{Aut}(F_2)$ (resp. $\operatorname{Aut}(F_3)$) again finitely generated? That is, does $\operatorname{Aut}(F_2)$ (resp. $\o …