Presentation of semidirect product is disjoint union of presentations plus action by conjugation relations
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Statement
In terms of external semidirect product
Suppose is a group and
is a group acting on
, i.e., a homomorphism of groups
is specified. Suppose we are given presentations for both
and
, and assume further that the generating sets for
and
have already been made disjoint, i.e., no generator letter is repeated between the two presentations.
The External semidirect product (?) can be given the following presentation:
- Generating set is taken as the union of generating sets for
and
.
- Relation set is taken as the union of relation sets for
and
and the following action relations: for every generator
of
and every generator
of
, the relation
where
is the word (in
) for the element
).