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My objective here today is to describe what is known about the defining relations of finitely generated metabelian groups. This is not a difficult task because very little is known and much of what is known is of very recent origin. Despite this meagre knowledge, the results obtained so far suggest that the theory of finitely presented solvable groups is far richer than one might have suspected. It is for this reason that I have chosen to discuss finitely presented metabelian groups at this time.
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Baumslag, G. (1974). Finitely Presented Metabelian 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_5
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