Abstract
We generalize a construction due to Magnus and use it to investigate orders on the monoid and group given by the presentation
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The author was supported by an NSF VIGRE postdoctoral grant at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign during the research of this article.
The author gratefully acknowledges receiving helpful hints from Ilya Kapovich during the research of this article.
Notes
Communicated by A. Yu. Olshanskii.