Inventiones mathematicae

, Volume 102, Issue 1, pp 305–334 | Cite as

Small cancellation theory and automatic groups

  • S. M. Gersten
  • H. B. Short
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Keywords

Automatic Group Small Cancellation Small Cancellation Theory 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • S. M. Gersten
    • 1
  • H. B. Short
    • 1
  1. 1.Department of MathematicsMSRIBerkeleyUSA

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