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    Profinite completion of Grigorchuk's group is not finitely presented

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    In this paper we prove that the profinite completion G^\mathcal{\hat G} of the Grigorchuk group G\mathcal{G} is not finitely presented as a profinite group. We obtain this result by showing that H^2(\mathcal{\hat G},\field{F}_2) is infinite dimensional. Also several results are proven about the finite quotients G/StG(n)\mathcal{G}/ St_{\mathcal{G}}(n) including minimal presentations and Schur Multipliers

    Quadratic equations over free groups are NP-complete

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    We prove that the problems of deciding whether a quadratic equation over a free group has a solution is NP-complete
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