Papers on Whitehead Method

1.      Whitehead method and Genetic Algorithms (with A.D. Miasnikov). Computational and experimental group theory, 89-114, Contemp. Math., 349, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 2004.

We describe a genetic Whitehead's algorithm for finding minimal elements (elements of minimal length in automorphic orbits) in arbitrary free groups. The classical Whitehead's algorithm is extremely innefective for free groups of big ranks, but this genetic version of it works all right. Also we formulate several mathematical conjectures that came out of our experiments.