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2-Stratifolds are a generalization of 2-manifolds in that there are disjoint simple closed curves where several sheets meet. We show that the word problem for fundamental groups of 2-stratifolds is solvable.
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J. C. Gómez-Larrañaga would like to thank LAISLA and the TDA project from CIMAT for financial support and IST Austria for their hospitality.
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Gómez-Larrañaga, J.C., González-Acuña, F. & Heil, W. 2-Stratifold groups have solvable word problem. RACSAM 112, 803–810 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13398-017-0484-6
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