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The base free product for the group encoding of a modular machine isThe letters $x,y$ generate the first factor, and $t$ generates the second. Let $T_K$ be the kernel of the group homomorphism $K\to ⟨x,y⟩\cong {\mathbb{Z}}^2$ that kills $t$. Thenis a free group with this displayed free basis of a group. Indeed every word in $K$ can be rewritten as a product of such conjugates followed by an element of $⟨x,y⟩$, so they generate the kernel. A freely reduced product of these conjugates is nontrivial by the normal form theorem for a free product: after combining adjacent occurrences of the same conjugate, different successive indices give a nonzero intervening $x,y$-syllable. Thus there is no relation among the proposed basis elements.

For clarity, a modular machine of modulus $m>1$ has at most one instruction for each residue pair $(a,b)$, with $0\le a,b<m$ and $0\le c<m^2$. Its right and left transitions are respectivelyIts halting set at a designated terminal configuration $H_0(\mathcal{M})$ consists of the nonnegative pairs whose forward computation reaches $(0,0)$, including $(0,0)$ itself. These formulas explain the exponents in the associated-subgroup maps below.