Von Dyck group

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This article defines a family of groups whose members are parametrized by tuples of natural numbers. In other words, for every tuple of natural numbers, there is a unique corresponding group (upto isomorphism) in that family

Definition

For natural numbers l,m,n, the von Dyck group D(l,m,n) is defined by the following presentation:

<a,b,c|al=bm=cn=abc=1>

This is a subgroup of index two in the triangle group, but some people use the term triangle group for the von Dyck group.