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- From: greil@guug.de (Anton Greil)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: incompletness of arithmetic, conjugacy problem
- Message-ID: <greil.716497944@guug.de>
- Date: 14 Sep 92 19:12:24 GMT
- Sender: news@regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de (News System)
- Organization: Technical University of Munich, Germany
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- Many number-theoretical problems can be embedded into the context of
- discrete subgroups of Moebius transformations.
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- In 1971 C.F. Miller has shown that the conjugacy problem is unsolvable for
- finitely generated linear groups, like e.g. the modular group or the Picard
- group. Has it ever happened to a researcher, that the solution of an arithmetic
- problem would have needed necessarily the solution of the conjugacy problem and
- that thus the incompletness of arithmetic (Goedel) came to light ?
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- Toni
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