Equations in free groups are not finitely approximable

DOI10.1090/S0002-9939-99-04747-4zbMath0914.20031OpenAlexW1737496324MaRDI QIDQ4226312

Anatole Khelif, Thierry Coulbois

Publication date: 25 January 1999

Published in: Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1090/s0002-9939-99-04747-4

zbMATH Keywords

free groupsfinite quotientsequations in groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Decidability of theories and sets of sentences (03B25) Free nonabelian groups (20E05) Word problems, other decision problems, connections with logic and automata (group-theoretic aspects) (20F10) Limits, profinite groups (20E18)

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