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Informally, a group is free on a set of generators if no relation holds among these generators except the trivial relations that hold among any set of elements in any group. We make this precise as follows.
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Lyndon, R.C., Schupp, P.E. (2001). Free Groups and Their Subgroups. In: Combinatorial Group Theory. Classics in Mathematics, vol 89. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-61896-3_1
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