Embedding hyperbolic groups into finitely presented infinite simple groups

Publication date 26 June 2023

Development of contemporary mathematics (01A65) History of group theory (20-03) Simple groups (20E32) Word problems, other decision problems, connections with logic and automata (group-theoretic aspects) (20F10) Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67)

Abstract: The Boone--Higman conjecture is that every recursively presented group with solvable word problem embeds in a finitely presented simple group. We discuss a brief history of this conjecture and work towards it. Along the way we describe some classes of finitely presented simple groups, and we briefly outline work of Belk, Bleak, Matucci, and Zaremsky showing that the broad class of hyperbolic groups embeds in a class of finitely presented simple groups.

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