%0 Journal Article
%T On the Andrews-Curtis conjecture and algorithms from topology
%A Siddhartha Gadgil
%J Mathematics
%D 2001
%I arXiv
%X We relate the Andrews-Curtis conjecture to the triviality problem for balanced presentations of groups using algorithms from 3-manifold topology. Implementing this algorithm could lead to counterexamples to the Andrews-Curtis conjecture.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0108053v1