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FALSE: the Reidemeister-Schreier presentation needs no choice of transversal
Statement
The Reidemeister-Schreier presentation of a subgroup does not depend on the chosen transversal.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The false claim above.
Reidemeister-Schreier uses a chosen Schreier system or transversal and rewrites words through its representatives (The Reidemeister-Schreier presentation theorem).
Refutation
Let , and let be the subgroup of words with even exponent sum in . The two right cosets are and , so both and are Schreier systems.
With the Schreier system , the nontrivial Schreier generators are , , and . With the Schreier system , the corresponding nontrivial Schreier generators are , , and . These are different generator lists.
The subgroup presented is the same subgroup , but the rewritten generators depend on the chosen representatives. Therefore the Reidemeister-Schreier presentation does depend on the transversal.
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Sources
- Roger C. Lyndon and Paul E. Schupp, Combinatorial Group Theory (standard reference, not scraped)