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Hanna Neumann’s Problems on Varieties of Groups

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Proceedings of the Second International Conference on the Theory of Groups

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Mathematics ((LNM,volume 372))

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This is an informal report on the present status of the displayed problems in Hanna Neumann’s book Varieties of groups [50]. The reader should have the book at hand, not only for notation and terminology but also because we do not re-state the problems nor repeat the comments available there. Our aim is to he up to date, not to present a complete historical survey; superseded references will be mostly ignored regardless of their significance at the time. Details of solutions will not be quoted from papers already published, unless needed to motivate further questions. The discussion and the problems highlighted in it reflect our personal interests rather than any considered value-judgement.

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Kovács, L.G., Newman, M.F. (1974). Hanna Neumann’s Problems on Varieties of Groups. In: Newman, M.F. (eds) Proceedings of the Second International Conference on the Theory of Groups. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 372. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-21571-5_42

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