Binary subgroups of direct products

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Abstract: We explore an elementary construction that produces finitely presented groups with diverse homological finiteness properties -- the {em binary subgroups}, B(Sigma,mu)<G1imesdotsimesGm. These full subdirect products require strikingly few generators. If each Gi is finitely presented, B(Sigma,mu) is finitely presented. When the Gi are non-abelian limit groups (e.g. free or surface groups), the B(Sigma,mu) provide new examples of finitely presented, residually-free groups that do not have finite classifying spaces and are not of Stallings-Bieri type. These examples settle a question of Minasyan relating different notions of rank for residually-free groups. Using binary subgroups, we prove that if G1,dots,Gm are perfect groups, each requiring at most r generators, then G1imesdotsimesGm requires at most rlfloorlog2m+1floor generators.











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