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J. Howie, Some results on one-relator surface groups, Bol. Soc. Mat. Mexicana (3) 10 (2004), Special Issue, 255--262.---> (compressed postscript file) (uncompressed postscript file) (PDF file)
J. Howie and R. Shwartz, One-relator products induced from generalized triangle groups, Communications in Algebra 32 (2004) 2505--2526. ---> (compressed postscript file) (uncompressed postscript file) (PDF file)
J. Howie, A proof of the Scott-Wiegold conjecture on free products of cyclic groups, J. Pure Appl. Algebra 173 (2002) 167-176 ---> (compressed postscript file) (uncompressed postscript file) (PDF file)
M. R. Bridson, J. Howie, C. F. Miller III and H. Short, The subgroups of direct products of surface groups, Geometriae Dedicata 92 (2002) 95-103 ---> (compressed postscript file) (uncompressed postscript file) (PDF file)
M. Edjvet, J. Howie, G. Rosenberger and R. M. Thomas, Finite generalized tetrahedron groups with a high-power relator, Geometriae Dedicata, 94 (2002) 111-139 ---> (compressed postscript file) (uncompressed postscript file) (PDF file)
J. Howie and V. Metaftsis, On the asphericity of length five relative group presentations, Proc. London Math. Soc. 82 (2001) 173-194 ---> (compressed postscript file) (uncompressed postscript file) (PDF file)
W. A. Bogley, N. D. Gilbert and J. Howie, Cockcroft properties of Thompson's group, Canadian Math. Bulletin 43 (2000) 268-281 ---> (compressed postscript file) (uncompressed postscript file) (PDF file)
N. D. Gilbert, J. Howie, V. Metaftsis and E. Raptis, Tree actions of automorphism groups, J. Group Theory 3 (2000) 213-223 ---> (compressed postscript file) (uncompressed postscript file) (PDF file)
J. Howie, A short proof of a theorem of Brodskii, Publ. Mat. Univ. Aut. Barcelona 44 (2000) 641-647 ---> (compressed postscript file) (uncompressed postscript file) (PDF file)
J. Howie, Bestvina-Brady groups and the plus construction, Math. Proc. Cambridge Phil. Soc. 127 (1999), 487-493 ---> (compressed postscript file) (uncompressed postscript file) (PDF file)
J. Howie, Minimal Seifert manifolds for higher ribbon knots, Geometry and Topology Monographs 1 (1998) 261-293 ---> (compressed postscript file) (uncompressed postscript file) (PDF file)
J. Howie, Free subgroups in groups of small deficiency, J. Group Theory, 1 (1998) 95-112 ---> (compressed postscript file) (uncompressed postscript file) (PDF file)
S. D. Brodsky and J. Howie, The universal torsion-free image of a group, Israel J. Math. 98 (1997) 209-228 ---> (compressed postscript file) (uncompressed postscript file) (PDF file)
M. Edjvet and J. Howie, On the abstract groups (3,n,p;2), J. London Math. Soc. 53 (1996) 271-288 ---> (compressed postscript file) (uncompressed postscript file) (PDF file)
Hyperbolic groups, in: Omades kai Efarmoges (Groups and Applications), edited by V. Metaftsis, Ekdoseis Ziti, Thessaloniki, 2000, pp 137-160. ( PDF file )
Proceedings of 1998 ICMS workshop on `Computational and Geometric Aspects of Modern Algebra':
M. D. Atkinson, N. D. Gilbert, J. Howie, S. A. Linton and E. F. Robertson (editors), Computational and Geometric Aspects of Modern Algebra , London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series 275 (2000), Cambridge University Press.
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