The Whitehead Algorithm for free groups

Master's Thesis from the year 2013 in the subject Mathematics - Algebra, grade: -, University of Warwick (Institute of Mathematics), course: M.Sc dissertation in Pure Mathematics, language: English, abstract: We start with a brief introduction to Free Groups, thereby appreciating Nielsen’s approach to the Subgroup theorem. Beautiful results of J. H. C. Whitehead, J. Nielsen, E. S. Rapaport, Higgin...