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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2014 iii Paper 4 5 i Solution by
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No prime and no presentation of have p-deficiency at least one. Abelianizing the cyclic squaring relations makes each generator zero: for example becomes , so , and the other four relations kill . Thus the abelianization of is trivial and for every prime number . The presentation-independent p-rank of a group bound from the general solution givesfor every group presentation of . This rules out alternative presentations, not just the one displayed.
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