Britton's lemma (source code)

= Britton's lemma
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In an HNN extension, every word containing a stable letter and having no pinch $t^{-1}ct$ or $tdt^{-1}$ is nonidentity. In particular, the natural map from the base group to its HNN extension is injective.

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